[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[JF Mezei]

Michael Unger wrote:

> Mail headers _may_ of course be split ("folded", RFC 822 section 3.1.1)
> into several lines -- provided the continuation lines are beginning with
> what is called "white space" (a single blank, several blanks, a tab
> character).


The problem is that when the VMS receiver split lines, it mereley
inserted a line break without adding a white space at start of the new
line which created an invalid RFC822 header.

I have not upgraded to the version that reportedly fixed that so I can't
verify that this was properly fixed.

The rationale for this was allegedly that allowing lines linger than 256
characters would have broken delivery of messages via decnet.