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 ========== ========== 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.