On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:50:08AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Apparently References: headers are being generated to >254 characters, and
> some mailing list MTA's are bouncing/rejecting the messages because the
> headers are considered fried.
>
> 1) Is that an RFC limit, or an MTA shortfall?
> 2) If it's an RFC limit, is it possible my friend has an older version of
> mutt and it was fixed later?
> 3) Is this a problem in 0.95.7i (put out last week, and what I'm using)
The only limit is on the length of lines in the SMTP protocol (RFC821), which
is 1000 characters. It appears that the mailing list software of which you
speak is imposing some arbitrary limit of its own. There used to be a variable
$trim_ref that specified the number of references to keep around when
replying, but I took it out because it's better practice to keep the full
amount (up to 100 chars) so that threads don't become detached when you delete
messages in the middle of the thread. My first reaction would be to send
email to the mail list authors and ask them to change their limit.
me
