Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 11/24/07 19:17

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:35:49 -0800 (PST), John Dunlop
<john@dunlop.name> wrote:

>C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/):
>
>> No - that's SMTP which is a specific transport mechanism for email
>> (actually its a whole family of protocols but lets not go there) its
>> up to the MUA ('mail' command on Unix or the SMTP implementation
>> within PHP for |MSWin) to **convert** the message to a suitable format
>> for the MTA, which may in turn encode the message in a different
>> format depending on the carrier protocol.
>
>Right.
>
>> Perhaps historically the SMTP implementation in PHP couldn't
>> accomodate this.
>>
>> If you sniff the SMTP connection you'll see that long lines do get
>> wrapped - but the original message is restored when it comes out the
>> MUA at the other end.
>
>I wonder where PHP's figure 70 came from? If long lines do get
>wrapped but you still recommended a limit, would you not recommend
>78, in line with the transfer protocol?


70 is good because it allows room to grow wider based on replies.

>
>On the other note, line endings seem a bit messy: \n for the message
>body but \r\n for headers, whereas the transfer protocol demands \r\n
>across the board. Then, I suppose, the whole business of line ending
>conventions is messy.

Thanks to M$ it has been for quite a while.
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