In article <sd342c82.076@ccp2.jhuccp.org>, KEVIN ZEMBOWER <KZEMBOWER@jhuccp.org> wrote:
We're using GroupWise here. As far as I can tell, there's no option to turn on or off automatic line wrapping by the user. As an experiment, I typed a message from myself (on a Win PC using GroupWise) to myself (on a Linux host). In this message, I typed one long line with no hard returns. I examined the message on the Linux host, using both PINE, and catting the /var/spool/mail file. Both showed the message broken into lines shorter than 72 characters.
I'm stuck with this system. I don't run the email system, and the folks who do are not amenable to suggestion.
So, are there any alternative solutions?
It's supposed to be legal to break headers into multiple lines by adding whitespace at the front of each "continuation line." According to the mail specs, these headers should be considered equivalent: X-Command: twp@rootsweb.com password subscribe joe@example.com and X-Command: twp@rootsweb.com password subscribe joe@example.com So you could try forcing the issue by breaking the X-Command into these continuation lines yourself well before the 72-character limit. I don't know if SmartList/procmail will actually handle the continuation line correctly, but it seems like it ought to.