Re: [Zymail-devel] Great work! And, a new feature...

[Tim J. <tj...@to...>]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Tim Jones wrote:

>> For styled text, sure, but not for plain text.  Some (admittedly
>> poorly-written but nonetheless common) MTAs will truncate or
>> otherwise abuse lines longer than 76 characters.  Staying under 72
>> characters is good practice for a MUA.  See RFC 1521 for example:
>> <http://www.math-inf.uni-greifswald.de/~teumer/mime/1521/
>> Appendix_B.html>
>>
>> (Mind the line wrap!)
>
> The point exactly...
>
> However, the line length definition as presented in 1522 states:
>
> " (4) Lines longer than 76 characters may be wrapped or truncated in
> some environments. Line wrapping and line truncation are STRONGLY
> DISCOURAGED, but unavoidable in some cases. Applications which
> require long lines must somehow differentiate between soft and hard
> line breaks.  (A simple way to do this is to use the quoted-printable
> encoding.)"

BTW - that quote is from Appendix B -- General Guidelines for Sending  
Email Data

Tim