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Subject: Re: line / paragraph length limit
From: "Edward Chase" <echase @ studentweb . providence . edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:17:41 -0500
To: "'Roger B.A. Klorese'" <rogerk @ queernet . org>
Cc: <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
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In-reply-to: <43D538D0.8070900@queernet.org>

> Edward Chase wrote:
> > Howdy!
> >
> > A rather lengthy message got sent through a mailing list 
> I'm in charge of.
> >
> > There were unexpected paragraph/line breaks just after the 
> 990th character
> > in the pargraph(s).
> >
> > Can you help me expliain to my supervisor why this happened?
> >   
> 
> From: Roger B.A. Klorese [mailto:rogerk@queernet.org]
> The SMTP protocol requires it.
> 
>    text line
>       The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is
>       1000 characters (not counting the leading dot duplicated for
>       transparency).  This number may be increased by the use of SMTP
>       Service Extensions.
> 
> The extra ten characters are pad for delimiters.


Thank you for that.  One followup on this.  The same message sent from one
Outlook user to another Outlook user did not show the same forced breaks.

Can you explain that?



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