Re: Subject length limitation?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 08/31/2004 01:57:40 PM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Le 31.08.2004 01:18:03, Geoffrey Leach a écrit :
> > This is 2.2.4
> >
> > Replying to a confirmation, I get a bounce because the to address  
> is
>
> > truncated.  Any ideas on where the problem might be?
> >
> > The original address:
> > amywohls-opinions-sc.1093907112.cemciaeiiiedgpgnfcfm-
> > geoff=direcway com wohl biglist com
>
> 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):

Subject: test
To:
        
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
       aaaaaaaaaaaaaa theochem kth se
X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.4

The very long user name got split. gmime_parser can construct the  
message back until certain limit of the "To" field length - if the  
address gets split as above, gmime will set the internal "To" field to  
an empty value. I seem to recall there was 75-characters limit for atom  
length in MIME standard, perhaps the observed problem is related.

Other mail program do not accept such a header either. I get with pine:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  MISSING- 
HOST-NAME., UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS  SYNTAX-ERROR 

I do not really know what is the sane behaviour in such a case.

Pawel