On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:48:57PM -0400, Jameson C . Burt wrote: > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters?
Please do keep sending your regular email with line breaks at +/- 70 characters. It is not just a matter of style, it is about common courtesy. > This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, > which are seldom less than even 90 characters in length. > I haven't been able to determine if this line-length limit is set > by exim, procmail, or perhaps my mail user agent (balsa). AFAIK it is the user that is responsible for proper line formatting, but some mua's will do that automatically by default. It would not surprise me if balsa did, it being a featurefull mua. If you pipe or redirect your data to mail(1), neither it nor your mta should be changing the contents of your message. If you want to use balsa and still be assured of the integrity of the data you are sending, use mime to attach the data to the message or uuencode the data and include that in the message body. mail -s "here's your data" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < datafile Cheers, Joost
