So I guess what I'm asking is: I can easily modify my copy of nmh to raise
the 998-character limit, but it's not clear to me what I might break by
doing so. Would someone please explain what I'm missing here?
To answer your larger question (on the subject line):
- MH/nmh doesn't handle lines greater than 998 characters because such
messages are not valid according to RFC 5322, and mhfixmsg isn't going
to generate a message that nmh cannot handle. Whether or not nmh SHOULD
handle such messages is a different question.
- The line length limit is imposed by m_getfld(), and that function is ...
hairy. I think changing that might have unexpected consequences; it
might be fine, but I don't make any guarantees. But the fact you said
you could "easily modify" it suggests to me that you have not actually
LOOKED at the code in question :-)
--Ken
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