Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/11/58 11:41

woof wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have built a "contact us" form on my Web site and am using the PHP
> mail() function to send an e-mail to the Webmaster (that's me :-))
> Everything works fine. What I would like to know however is whether it
> is always necessary to limit each line of the message to 70 characters,
> as is written in the documentation of the function (writing for
> instance $this->message = wordwrap($message, 70)).
> It seems to work fine without doing it in my case and the text is
> easier to read.
> I guess there must be a reason for the limit, but how to find out when
> it is needed?
>

It's probably because your email program (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) is
set up to wrap text at 70 characters. Mine is, but I can disable it.

No RFC about it, AFAIK - just the email program's attempt to keep long
lines from wrapping off the end of the screen.

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