Hi Cyril

The RFC you linked states "This number may be increased by the use of SMTP 
Service Extensions."

This sounds to me like: Longer lines might work, but are not guaranteed.

So why not stick to the official limit of 998 + CRLF?

What's the purpose of having longer linses?

After all they can be folded, can't they? 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322

> Am 17.05.2024 um 08:48 schrieb Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop 
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> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I've got an email from one of my user telling me our server refused an email 
> because of a line too long.
> The issue is referenced in the RFC at 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.6 and we follow 
> and respect that recommandation.
> 
> I would not have raised this question here except that the user recently 
> moved from Cloudflare to us, and they shared with us a past email sent by 
> Sendgrid, that went through Cloudflare, and landed in their gmail inbox 
> successfully, **despite having a line of 1201 characters.
> 
> So, I wonder, is there another RFC that specifies a bigger line length, or 
> are the RFC here just for decoration?
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> Best regards,
> Cyril - ImprovMX <https://improvmx.com/>
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