Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA From: Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Body line length Message-ID: <20Dec84.055825.EN0C@CMU-CS-A.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 05:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: CMU-CS-A.20Dec84.055825.EN0C Posted: Thu Dec 20 05:58:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:23:10 EST References:Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 20 To: Kirk Kelley Cc: HEADER-PEOPLE@MIT-MC.ARPA In-Reply-To: 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