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From: Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Body line length
Message-ID: <20Dec84.055825.EN0C@CMU-CS-A.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 05:58:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 05:58:00 1984
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To: Kirk Kelley 
Cc: HEADER-PEOPLE@MIT-MC.ARPA
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Kirk,

I have had system give me huge lines, specifing a bad recipient address
and then not accept what they sent me.

I have system that get weird error failures....and if I look it
turns out one of our users is sending a message with long lines...he
or she generated because the terminal they have did auto-crlf...so
they typed until they were done with the message.

It sounds like you are hitting what Xerox hit along time ago. I would
suggest that you either avoid sending out long lines or have a table
of sites that "work" and wrap for all the other ones....I doubt you
will get mail to work for more then 55% of the hosts....It is just
to easy to have a static character buffer of a 1000 characters. I
know our CMU Unix code does that (the subtle thing is it does not
fail...it just adds new lines).

Good luck,
-Rudy