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RE: who was that last message to again?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'let's not start all that again... well, not this week anyway.'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:02:39 +0100
- Subject: RE: who was that last message to again?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 30 April 2006 00:17, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Brian Dessent on 4/26/2006 11:08 PM:
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> Whoa. This mail exposed a bug in Thunderbird. The To: line in my message
> display didn't wrap, and didn't offer a horizontal scroll bar, so all I
> could see without viewing full source was
>
> To: "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more
> characters than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told
> has more,than enough b
>
> Then, according to 'view source', all you sent was
>
> To:
> "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more
> characters than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told
> has more,than enough bits in it to uniquely identify the age of every atom
> in the,universe in nanoseconds, let a, cygwin-talk AT cygwin DOT com
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...
> (Well, not quite - it used @ and . instead of AT and DOT). Notice there
> was no closing quote! How'd it even get delivered to me without a valid
> email address?
Ah, the wonders of the SMTP envelope!
cheers,
DaveK
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