On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> >> >If you want to support wrapping with plain text, investigate
> >> >format=flowed.
> >>
> >> Yes, I did that.
> >>
> > > I'm curious, though: I haven't found the mail standards that forbid
> >> receivers to wrap long lines. Certainly many mail clients do it.
> >> What's the relevant RFC?
> >
> >RFC 2822, 2.1.1.
>
> Thanks. It's not quite a standard yet, but it's true, it does limit
> lines to 998 characters. Sort of a strange limit, but there you
> are....
It's 998 plus a CR/LF sequence which is 1000 bytes, not exactly an odd
number. And it's the official successor of RFC 822 which was an official
STD.
Ralf
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