Russell McMahon wrote: > It may be worth James and co looking at this. It's not their problem. Everything is working correctly. The only problem is bozos who insist on sending long lines even though they are not specified to be handled correctly. SMTP has an upper limit on line lengths that a complient server must handle. SMTP only guarantees 1000 characters, although servers are encouraged to make the limit as long as possible. From RFC 821: text line The maximum total length of a text line including the is 1000 characters (but not counting the leading dot duplicated for transparency). POP3 doesn't explicitly set a guaranteed minimum line length that will always be handled correctly, and implementations therefore vary widely. It's hard to imagine a POP3 server not at least allowing 132 character lines, but there are definitely implementations that truncate at 255 characters. I think this is exactly what we are seeing, and why different list subscribers see long lines in different ways. So once again, DON'T SEND WHOLE PARAGRAPHS AS SINGLE LINES. In fact if I was running a list server, I'd be tempted to impolitely discard any message containing a line exceeding 132 characters. Only spammers and bozos do that, neither of which are worth bothering with. ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist