I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his screen when needed. His software is, in his words, 'just plain mail software, nothing special'. Sometimes his emails are longer than a few dozen words, and when they exceed about one thousand characters of text, they are truncated. The last part of what he typed is simply missing from my copy. I suppose that there is a line buffer somewhere in the chain of delivery that is 1000 or 1024 bytes long.
I am curious about where in the chain of delivery the truncation might be happening. Is there a standard for email that specifies a line buffer size? My software is fetchmail and mutt. I have already established that the truncation is not happening in mutt, because I see it in /var/mail/pecondon . I haven't yet figured out how I might check on fetchmail. I don't have access to the internals of my ISP. I'm working on getting him to press carriage return from time to time as he types, but he is somewhat set in his ways. TIA -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
