Well, whoever is right, it certainly appears as if BPC is implementing a rule. And it's sure easier for me to comply, rather than fight Big Pond.
The mystery is how come _only_ HTML messages (not text) from SIMS appear to be affected? ---------------------------------- On Sunday, 10 February 2002 5:16 AM, Michael A. Pasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In SIMS Digest #1619, Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Host 'extmail.bigpond.com' says: >>>550 DATA line too long (Max 1024)" >> >>That is positive proof that extmail.bigpond.com is one very broken >>mail server. >> >>A mail server shouldn't be complaining about the internal format of message >>data. While it is traditionally the case that mail messages are composed of >>relatively short lines of text, there is NO standard that defines and RFC2821 >>specifically says a mail server SHOULD NOT impose a format on >mail messages. > >Sort of. That's the bad part about RFCs (and lawyers!)....everything is >subject to interpretation. RFC2821 says, in section 4.5.3.1, "Size limits >and minimums": > "text line > The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is > 1000 characters (not counting the leading dot duplicated for > transparency). This number may be increased by the use of SMTP > Service Extensions" > >Since the "dot duplicated for transparency" would ONLY apply to the "DATA" >portion of a message (i.e., to "escape" a line within the mail message that >contained only a "." -- a period) one could argue that there _is_ a >restriction imposed on the format (length) of individual "text lines" >within mail messages. > >But hey, I'm not a lawyer (and I'm not getting paid to have an opinion >one way or the other), so I won't argue who's right on this >one! > >Michael A. Pasek >Pasek Consulting, Inc. >9741 Foley Boulevard NW >Coon Rapids, MN 55433-5616 >(612) 597-5977 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >############################################################# >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
