Re: line / paragraph length limit

"Roger B.A. Klorese" <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:13:04 -0800

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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?
>   


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.