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Re: who was that last message to again?


On Mon, 1 May 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

> 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?).

Done, though, IMO, this would be rarer, and only apply to buggy mailers
that don't encode line continuations properly.  It is possible to send out
a message that has very long lines encoded in chunks of 998 characters or
less, and still make it look awful in the archives.  But the better we can
scare them, the more chance they'll comply. :-)

> If only email clients would be more helpful and warn you that the
> message you are about to send may be munged en route.

Heh, you're assuming the people who write the front ends for the mailers
are aware of all of these restrictions... :-)

> 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?

Yeah, that would be very nice.  But adding that '>' is so-o much easier,
isn't it?  According to the manual for my mailer (pine):
	The servers which handle the mail could be doing this before pine
	is even shown the message.

Outlook does quote the "F" in leading "From" as =46, IIRC, though I can't
find anything on Google on how to configure this in other mailers...
Anyone got a link?
	Igor
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