Re: Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Jul 2018, at 14:49, Rupert Gallagher wrote: A little survey on your local policies... What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters? A. Reject B. Accept as spam C. Accept Accept, absent some actual spam sign. Note that the 78-character recommendation is not

Re: Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
Longer than 300 characters gets spam points. Longer than 78 is technically allowed so long as the raw message has it broken into continuation lines. We arbitrarily decided that 300 characters indicates either the ravings of a lunatic or the output of spamware, and it's been accurate. Most

Re: Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: A little survey on your local policies... What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters?  A. Reject B. Accept as spam C. Accept That clause for 78 chars is a "SHOULD", the "MUST" is for 998 chars. It then also says:

Re: Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Accept. Mail must flow and it's not a spam indicator. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 14:49 Rupert Gallagher wrote: > A little survey on your local policies... > > What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters? > > A. Reject > B. Accept as spam > C. Accept >

Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread Rupert Gallagher
A little survey on your local policies... What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters? A. Reject B. Accept as spam C. Accept