Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:49:58 +0000
From: Nick Barnes <Nick(_dot_)Barnes(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
Message-ID: <9547(_dot_)1036428598(_at_)thrush(_dot_)ravenbrook(_dot_)com>
| I use NMH 1.0.4_1 on FreeBSD, reading mail using POP3. I am unable to
| collect messages containing very long lines (greater than 1K
| characters).
While it would be good if nmh had no such limitations, messages like
that are absolutely not conforming, and how they're treated is
largely up to the implementation. No-one should be expecting a message
with a line that long to be delivered correctly.
See Section 2.1.1 of rfc2822
There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF.
1K > 998 (regardless of whether the 1K included the CRLF or not).
kre
ps: I have absolutely no idea if there will ever be a new nmh release, or
if anyone really still cares (and is able) to make cvs commits, I know I
can't. But you're certainly not the last MH user around!