[Rt-devel] Subject length

[Jesse Vincent]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:25:02PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > But nothing bad will happen if you change the field definition in RT and
> > in the database.
> 
> Something bad might happen in email.  RFC 2822 says this:
> 
>    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.



But that's "perl line" and not "per header", so if we're foldking
headers, we should be ok, right?