Re: Subject length limitation?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 09/01/2004 11:53:36 AM, Laurent Cheylus wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 07:40:00AM +0000, Pawel Salek wrote:
>
> > >I've aleady reported this problem but it seems that it is not the
> > >subject but the To: field which is limited.
> >
> > MY impression is somebody pushes mail standards too far. I tried
> > creating such a message and I got following headers (I am afraid
> > balsa will wrap them so I will better attach such a message):
>
> According to my understanding of RFC 822
> (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html), there is no length limitation
> for an SMTP header field ('To:', 'From:', 'Subject:'....).
>
> Nevertheless, long header fields may be 'folded' (header field
> splitted
> in multipled lines) :
>
> RFC 822 - 3.4.8 excerpt :
>
> "For readability, the field-body  portion of long header fields may  
> be
>
> "folded" onto multiple lines of the actual field.  "Long" is commonly
> interpreted  to  mean greater than 65 or 72 characters."

I think you are right. In any case, folding should not split strings  
into two. It seems like a bug in gmime. Jeff, would you agree?

Pawel