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  3. June 2006

Re: Max length of an email subject line

Bob Crothers wrote:

I've got a customer who wants us to expand the Subject line to 256
characters.  First step is to find if it is even valid to be that long.  *I*
wouldn't want to receive one that long, but they aren't asking my
opinion...and they are paying the bills.  So they'll get it.


Unless the subject line is intended to be interpreted by a program, I
would absolutely advise this customer *NOT* to do this.

It's kind of like making a filename 256 characters long ... it's fine if
a computer needs to deal with it, but not a human.

david

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