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Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
> 
> KK> On the one hand, this is an utterly stupid question to have to
> KK> answer. Any "new" mail-serving program which imposes such severe line
> KK> length limits of that sort has, in the very first analysis, violated
> KK> the Robustness Principle.
> 
> I'll add for funnies that, as the owner of this list, I see bunches of fun
> bounces due to this.  Folks at cs.cmu.edu, what crappy mailer are you
> running there that _bounces_ mail if a header is over 510 characters?

I asked around about this, and this is the answer I got:

: The answer, of course, is "one that we invented ourselves"

A second response replied:

: the answer is most definitely NOT 'one we invented ourselves' 
: the answer is MMDF...

I'll see if I can't get facilities to look into it again.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
.