On July 18, 2005 at 08:15, Michael Thomas wrote:
The easy example I could find is to create a mail message
with 3000 consecutive 'a's and submit it to sendmail. It will
happily break the line for you at -- IIRC -- 2048 bytes. Nowsp
gets rid of all of those kinds of considerations and it does
it in a way that does not require *any* semantic awareness of
the underlying data. Having to have yet another piece of code
that cracks MIME, etc, seems like you're just setting yourself
up for yet another round of interoperability screwups.
I think the example is not applicable. We should not have to worry
about cases where the sender formats the message in violation of
existing standards (in this case RFC-2822).
--ewh