Closed Bug 235319 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Long lines without CRLF truncated

Categories

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: derek, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

User-Agent: Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Using my POP server, emails with a line length longer than (I think 1024) characters display that line truncated to 1024. I've tested mailing myself, and the messages do display correctly in my Webmail interface, so it seems to be in the download. It doesn't appear to make a difference if I'm sending in HTML or text format. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Write an email with a paragraph of over 1024 characters with no line breaks. 2. Click send! 3. Actual Results: Message displays only first 1024 characters of line - mail file also only contains first 1024 characters.
There is an existing line limit of 1000 characters including CRLF (see RFC 2821 and 2822) for messages in general resp. messages to be transported over SMTP. So lines > 1000 characters should never happen to be transmitted by POP too. Regardless these limits in the servers and specs, Mozilla doesn't have such limit at least in the receiving code. I succeeded in receiving a 1248 character line with a Perl script as POP server. You write, the line is also truncated in the mail file, so it shouldn't be a limit in Mozilla's display code. Maybe your POP server truncates the line when delivering although it's uncut on the server (and though display complete in webmail)? A Mozilla communications log might make things clearer (see http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#pop how to create one). Or even better an independent log via tcpdump to see what the server sends.
Well, I've found the same problem, but in the 'To:' line. In particular, when I use my hotmail account, I use to send messages to a big number of people (till 50, the limit set by Hotmail) so the 'To' line sometimes is longer than 1000 characters, so this line gets truncated. It doesn't happen with Internet Explorer, so I don't think it's a problem with the POP server ;) I suppose it's a problem with a limit of the length of a text field in a form. I wouldn't like to have to use IE such messages!
Product: MailNews → Core
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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