[Bug 151141] New: word wrap cannot be set to more than 78 charactes per line, though RFC2822 allows up to 998 characters

[mat.schult at gmx.de]

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           Summary: word wrap cannot be set to more than 78 charactes per
                    line, though RFC2822 allows up to 998 characters
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: mat.schult gmx de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The word wrapping in kmail is limited to 78 charactes, but the upper limit should be 998 characters.

It is often claimed that RFC822 would forbid lines longer than 78 characters + CRLF. Actually I cannot find any restriction there (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822).

RFC822 has been obsoleted by RFC2822 anyway and RFC2822 allows lines of up to 998 characters. That is more than the total characters in many mails. (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822)

(BTW: Along with this it would be helpful to have http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31951 (from 2001) fixed as well.)