--On fredag, fredag 4 aug 2006 15.44.52 -0700 "Harris, Jason (DIS)"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi All,  
>  
> My organization has a new mail server/gateway (Exchange 2003) that is
> enforcing a 72 character limit on the line length of my outgoing plain
> text emails.  

4.5.3 Sizes and Timeouts

4.5.3.1 Size limits and minimums

   There are several objects that have required minimum/maximum sizes.
   Every implementation MUST be able to receive objects of at least
   these sizes.  Objects larger than these sizes SHOULD be avoided when
   possible.  However, some Internet mail constructs such as encoded
   X.400 addresses [16] will often require larger objects: clients MAY
   attempt to transmit these, but MUST be prepared for a server to
   reject them if they cannot be handled by it.  To the maximum extent
   possible, implementation techniques which impose no limits on the
   length of these objects should be used.

...

   text line
      The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is
      1000 characters (not counting the leading dot duplicated for
      transparency).  This number may be increased by the use of SMTP
      Service Extensions.


From: Klensin: RFC 2821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, April 2001, pp 53-54

LART your Exchange people. Hard. They deserve it anyway. You have the RFC
on your side.

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