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Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH long lines
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Alexander Zangerl |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH long lines |
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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:14:27 +1000 |
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:02:51 GMT, address@hidden writes:
>I see this has been covered in some detail but I really need to know if
>there's an override for the 998 character line limit when building a
>message for sending?
the 998 byte line length limitation is part of the smtp mail format,
as per rfc822/2822/rfc5322, section 2.1.1, and thus pretty much set
in concrete.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1
mime helps one to work around that with the q-p encoding and
'fake' line breaks.
regards
az
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