Marty, thanks for the info.

That may be the problem, but not sure.  This owner/poster uses AOL => cuts
from AOL and post in new message to the list.  Not sure how AOl handles end
of line.

Mike
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:47:06 -0600, Marty Hoag <  > wrote:

>   I don't pretend to know how every mail user agent (client)
>handles "line end" characters but as I recall the original RFC821
>specification allowed up to 1000 bytes per "line" in the DATA portion
>of the SMTP transaction.
>
>   I haven't seen it lately but a few years ago I know some of the
>mail programs being used here used to end up with huge lines (like
>32KBytes) of blanks or nulls or something like that.  But I guess
>it could be a case of the lines being pasted not being terminated
>too...   I hope others have more details.