Scott,
Thanks a lot. That is exactly the info I needed. I will adjust our
program accordingly.
Gary
At 05:41 PM 10/2/00 , you wrote:
> > The problem, with dying in the middle of a recipient, is occurring
> > after approximately 1200 characters. In regards to the 512 character
> > limit you spoke of, who enforces this? Is this an IMail limit or a
> > general SMTP limit.
>
>This is per RFC822 (it's possible that it was extended in a later RFC, but
>I'm not aware of an extention to it). That's a per-line limit, so a 1200
>character line isn't allowed, but it would be perfectly fine to split that
>into 3 lines (just so long as the 2nd and 3rd lines start with a space or
>a tab).
>
> > So, are you saying that the program that generates the email should
> > be embedding "hard" carriage returns after every recipient (or every
> > nth recipient)?
>
>Some will split the line after each recipient, like this:
>
>To: Recipient 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Recipient 2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Recipient 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>That's nice, as humans can read it much more easily. But, other programs
>will split it after X characters (say, every 500 characters).
> -Scott
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