Fwd: Re: formatting and addresses

[Paul Hodges]

On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:23:39 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>  As best I can tell from experiment the 'internet' insert a couple of hard returns and perhaps a couple of other characters every 1K characters or so

The RFCs define a maximum line length for SMTP mail of 1000 chars
including the CRLF (=998 visible).  Some MTAs truncate, some don't,
some add CRLF - all are entitled to behave as they do.

Paul Hodges
QBS Software Ltd