[Dovecot] Problem with messages with long lines

[Jerry]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:44:06 -0300
ZMA - Emiliano Mariño <tech7 at zma.com.ar> articulated:

> Recently I am experimenting a problem trying to retrieve messages
> over a POP3 protocol.
> 
> Everything goes right until the POP3 client tries to retrieve a
> message that contains one or more long lines – lines as long as 3000
> characters or even more.
> 
> The client (Outlook 2003 and 2007) stops on that message until
> timeout.

I would be surprised if thry didn't. RFCs prohibit line length greater
than 998 characters.

<quote>

   There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
   characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
   998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
   the CRLF.

</quote>

-- 
Jerry ✌
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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