Re: Subject line wrapping truncated

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Subject line wrapping truncated
Date: 2006-12-28 22:34:20
Message-ID: 20061228223420.GC21484@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Are we any closer to fixing the mail servers do they don't truncate
> multi-line subjects, e.g.?

You shouldn't have to fix that. RFC 2822 is pretty clear that the
limits are 78 characters per line, which should be folded to a
maximum of a total character length of 998. AFAIK both Postfix and
Sendmail do this correctly.

A

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