On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
A little survey on your local policies...
What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters?
A. Reject
B. Accept as spam
C. Accept
That clause for 78 chars is a "SHOULD", the "MUST" is for 998 chars.
It then also says:
Again, even though this limitation is put on
messages, it is encumbant upon implementations which display messages
to handle an arbitrarily large number of characters in a line
(certainly at least up to the 998 character limit) for the sake of
robustness.
I've regularly seen "important" messages with subjects over 500 chars
(ones that our users complain about if not delivered normally).
So subject length > 78 is not a hard spam sign.
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