Re: Broken Packets

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From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 
> Well, what I had noticed was that Bry's post, unlike most, came over
> (when I opened the "message source," as Thunderbird calls it) as one
> long line of type. No CR/LFs. So perhaps some e-mail clients have a line
> length limit of 190 characters, and stick in a bang (or screamer) and a
> space after that many?

That's it, Patricia! There's a limit of 990 (not 190) characters per line under certain versions of
the sendmail program that many ISPs use. Also, an overall limit of 1000 chars per line under the
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 821). As discussed in these threads from comp.mail.sendmail:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_thread/thread/cf118adf1a4c2078/75955f1c9841cda5?q=990+character+limit&rnum=2#75955f1c9841cda5
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_thread/thread/4959962e0337a7ed/fee2deeee28ff3d7?q=990+character+limit&rnum=9#fee2deeee28ff3d7

So the answer, for Harry, is to insist that his subscribers add hard line wraps to their text. Any
decent mail program can be set to do it automatically. U2's PUTCR does it in XyWrite without need
to load a special PRiNter file. Just set your margins to the desired line length.

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Carl Distefano
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