[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 11.05.01 in
<p0510030db7221c090810@[10.128.7.49]·2>:
> At 1:32 PM -0300 2001-05-11, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> >On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:51:25AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> >> Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >> >What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this
> >> >stuff should not be interpreted by the receivers as needing wrapping,
> >> >so irregardless of good or bad design it's just plain illegal.
> >> >
> >> >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 the unchanged old RFC 821 SMTP line length limit [4.5.3 SIZES, text
line] (the consequences are just spelt out more clearly). And 821 is from
1982, so this is certainly not new in any sense of the word.
MfG Kai
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