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Re: mhbuild and long header fields


From: Andy Bradford
Subject: Re: mhbuild and long header fields
Date: 18 Sep 2023 07:14:38 -0600

Thus said David Levine on Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:51:04 -0400:

> How about this?
>
>     mhbuild now  folds header  field bodies to  avoid lines  with more
>     then 78 bytes.
>
>     This is required by RFC 5322 2.1.1. Line Length Limits.
>

Minor correction; replace "then" with "than".

Also, RFC 5322 2.1.1 does not "require" that the lines be no more than 
78 bytes, only that it's highly recommended that they not exceed that.  
The actual line limit is 998 bytes.

Thanks,

Andy




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