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iandoug

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Hi

Forwarded a message received from the MS universe to person at Gmail.

Got this:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

xxxxxx @ gmail.com
message has lines too long for transport


Is this Google or something at Afrihost?

Never in all my years have I encountered this before :)

Thanks, Ian
 
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I haven't seen this issue before but it seems to be a mail client issue.

You need to enable wrap text characters in the mail client settings.

What mail client are you using?
 
AfriNatic said:
I haven't seen this issue before but it seems to be a mail client issue.

You need to enable wrap text characters in the mail client settings.

What mail client are you using?
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Kmail, since 2005.
It is set to wordwrap at column 78, but the message does contain long lines visible with View Source, for

ARC-Seal:
ARC-Message-Signature:
x-microsoft-antispam:

Those lines are solid hex so guess it does not try to "word" wrap ...

Is This MS breaking the internet again? :-)

Thanks, Ian
 
iandoug said:
Kmail, since 2005.
It is set to wordwrap at column 78, but the message does contain long lines visible with View Source, for

ARC-Seal:
ARC-Message-Signature:
x-microsoft-antispam:

Those lines are solid hex so guess it does not try to "word" wrap ...

Is This MS breaking the internet again? :)

Thanks, Ian
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It might be but i'm thinking somewhere the mail client isn't behaving as it should.
 
The long lines are in the headers. I can forward the message "inline" which only forwards the message text, but forwarding as attachment drags the incoming message headers along, and they are the problem.

RFC 2822 is clear: Header lines MUST not be longer then 998 characters or be properly folded (as is also explained in the RFC).
serverfault.com

Email Header too Long

I was told that this would fit here after I put it on WebMasters. I am hoping someone can tell me what would happen if a line in an email header was longer than the maximum 998 characters as speci...
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Longest line goes to column 878.

So within parameters ... apologies MS :-).

Is the original error message from Afrihost or Gmail? Seems to be Afrhost:

Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.afrihost.co.za

Thanks ,Ian
 
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