Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> 821 contains the minimum line width limit and the encouragement to make
>> it as long as possible.  I don't recall 822 specifying a line limit,
>> although I only looked it over briefly a long time ago.
>
> I already wrote that 822 specifies a maximum line length. I'm not sure
> why you have to resort to imprecise memory resulting from a brief look
> several years ago.

Because I thought you were mixing up 821 and 822 because I know that 821
contains a line length spec.  As I said, I'm not that familiar with 822 but
found it surprising that two related standards would both specify a line
length since it's usually good to put each piece of information in a single
place.  Apparently I was wrong about this and both 821 and 822 (and 2821 and
2822) specify a minimum line length.

>  10. Message Format
>
>  All messages transmitted during a POP3 session are assumed to conform
>  to the standard for the format of Internet text messages [RFC822].

So the part I missed was that the POP3 RFC implicitly defines a line length
by reference to RFC 822.  I wasn't aware that 822 contained a line length
spec, and therefore wasn't aware that POP3 had a line length spec.  I stand
corrected.

Given this new information, I may try to find where "256" was typed in and
replace it with "1000" in the POP3 server.


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