Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:17:58 PM, Frank wrote:
> So RFC 822 makes no restrictions on the lengths of text lines in the *body*
> of an E-mail message. RFC 822 *does* make restrictions on the length of
> lines in E-mail *headers*, but that is not the issue we're discussing.
Gah, wrap your lines, just don't argue about it. Geez. I can't believe
you're trying to defend Eudora, breaker of RFCs extraordinaire.
> RFC 822 makes no restrictions like you describe above. Lines of a *message
> body* can be arbitrarily long according to RFC 822. Can you point me to such
> restrictions in RFC 822?
> Over to you ...
Fine, RFC821, Page 43, section 4.5.3.
text line
The maximum total length of a text line including the
<CRLF> is 1000 characters (but not counting the leading
dot duplicated for transparency).
Common convention is to wrap your lines, just do it. Jeez.
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