patchbomb (python email module?) breaks lines after 990 chars

[Christian Ebert]

* Martin Geisler on Monday, April 20, 2009 at 21:15:12 +0200
> Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.org> writes:
>> Further testing reveals, it's not Mutt (and not Mailman either), it's
>> either patchbomb (I've tested as far back as Mercurial 1.0.2) or
>> python's email module. Lines are broken after 990 chars ...
> 
> That is part of RFC 2822:
> 
> 2.1.1. Line Length Limits
> 
>   There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
>   characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
>   998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
>   the CRLF.
> 
>   [...]

Ah, thanks for the research ... sorry, I guess you knew that by
heart ;-)

c
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