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From: Robert Epprecht <epprecht@logon.ch>
Cc: juerg.heim@sunweb.ch
Subject: OT Length of Header-Lines?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 21:13:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23e873z3t.fsf@pc.logon.ch> (raw)

Hello.

I'm getting my mail through a new mailserver (IMail 4.03b).
The headers get truncated after 255 bytes, which can't be 
The Right Thing (tm). So after a long 'References: '-line Gnus thinks 
that the other lines belong to the text of the message and shows the 
rest of the 'References: '-line (and any following headers) as article.

To clarify the situation with my ISP I want to know how a mailserver
should treat long header lines: 
How long are they allowed to get?
After how many bytes is it ok to truncate? 
Where is that regulated?

Robert Epprecht



             reply	other threads:[~1998-10-29 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-29 20:13 Robert Epprecht [this message]
1998-10-29 21:06 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-10-30  8:24   ` Robert Epprecht
1998-10-30 16:44   ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1998-10-30 18:20     ` Michael Welsh Duggan

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