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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