At 01:42 1999-12-26 +0300, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On 25 Dec 99, at 16:40, Frank Farance wrote
> about "Regarding the RFCs":
>
> The headers of *this* your message:
>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I just checked my E-mail as it leaves my SMTP server (sendmail 8.9.1) and it does
*not* add that header, so it must come from some other gateway. When I check my
headers from E-mail I receive from the E-mail reflector, apparently, the path is
direct from my SMTP server to the E-mail list. That would mean that either (1) the
TBUDL mail server is adding the header, (2) your mail server is adding it, or (3) some
relay server between you and TBUDL is adding it.
> What QP you are speaking about? And now, just FYI:
> RFC822.
Gee, almost all of the normative text of RFC822 (i.e., its assertions) describes
message *headers*, not the message *body*. The only normative wording that is
relevant is:
3. LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF MESSAGES
3.1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A message consists of header fields and, optionally, a body.
The body is simply a sequence of lines containing ASCII charac-
ters. It is separated from the headers by a null line (i.e., a
line with nothing preceding the CRLF).
[FYI, "normative" is standards terminology for describing what is required in a
conforming implementation -- in contrast to "informative" wording, which is just
explanatory information.]
So RFC 822 makes no restrictions on the lengths of text lines in the *body* of an
E-mail message. RFC 822 *does* make restrictions on the length of lines in E-mail
*headers*, but that is not the issue we're discussing.
> Let's start from the very beginning:-)
>
> > Presumably, you mean there are some RFCs that are not
> > satisifed. Which ones in particular? I can read the RFCs on
> > my own, just point me to the one you think is problematic.
> > You're right that I'm not a beta tester. I never claimed I
> > was. I was just asking for technical support information
> > about The Bat. Can't logical lines be of arbitrary length?
> >
> > Regarding the RFCs, I'm assuming you are talking about RFC
> > 2045, right? Doesn't RFC 2045 quoted printable permit
> > *logical* lines of arbitrary length?
>
> See above. For the 7-bit encoded (_non_-QP) messages the
> lines cannot be arbitrary long. As for your messages, each
> paragraph occupies exactly one line.
RFC 822 makes no restrictions like you describe above. Lines of a *message body* can
be arbitrarily long according to RFC 822. Can you point me to such restrictions in
RFC 822?
Over to you ...
-FF
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