Re: Folding of long lines in message bodies
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Bruce Lilly <[email protected]> writes: >On Mon May 30 2005 14:30, Charles Lindsey wrote: >> And if implemented correctly, it should not result >> in extremely long lines >And yet it does. See >http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/mail-archive/msg01961.html >for example. There is no way of telling (because full headers are not available) whether that messange was sent with format=flowed, or not. >The distinguishing characteristic of such messages (absent >from Jacob's original in this thread) is that an entire >paragraph of text is contained in a single message line as >described in section 3.1 of RFC 3676. But if it _was_ sent with format=flowed, then the agent which sent it has breached a SHOULD in RFC 3676 by not splitting after 78 characters, Breaching that SHOULD is not the end of the world, but it makes that agent thoroughly broken IMO. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5