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Re: who was that last message to again?


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According to Dave Korn on 4/30/2006 2:02 PM:
> 
>   Sounds like a 255 char limit, yet RFC2822 says lines can be up to 998 chars
> long, and that it is "incumbent" on Thunderbird to deal.  Then again,
> truncating is a way of dealing...

It wasn't Thunderbird doing the truncation.  When I looked at the mail in
my ISP's web portal before POP-ing it into Thunderbird, the damage had
already been done.  But speaking of truncation, I have already had a fair
share of messages chopped at the 998 limit in the body when I forgot to
PCYMTWLL.  Some MTAs merely insert a ! character and line wrap at position
998, in your behalf, but there are enough MTAs that just discard the
lengthy data to make long lines risky (maybe the OLOCA should be updated
to point this out?).  If only email clients would be more helpful and warn
you that the message you are about to send may be munged en route.  And
why can't more mailers be smart about encoding a leading From so that it
doesn't appear as >From on the receiving end?

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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