More to the point. When doing a STAT the headers are not "folded". However,
when a user attempts to download the same message the headers are
"folded". This confuses the mail client and causes it to not download
the message.

fr

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
|> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:20 PM
|> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Header Wrapping
|>
|>
|>
|> >We currently run IMail 5.0 and we are having problems with headers being
|> >wrapped. In other words, if IMail thinks a header is too long
|> it will wrap
|> >them with a newline. Obviously for strict mail clients this
|> causes problems
|> >as the client will not download the message. Does anyone know
|> if this has
|> >been fixed?
|>
|> Could you elaborate on this?
|>
|> Although frowned upon, a mail server is allowed to wrap headers (called
|> "folding").  Just so long as the second (and subsequent) lines
|> start with a
|> space or tab, there is no problem.  For example:
|>
|> From: "R. Scott Perry"
|>          <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|> Subject: Test
|>
|>
|>                                                     -Scott
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