From M.Woodman@open.ac.uk Fri Jan 8 10:26:21 1993 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA06377 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:26:14 +0100 Message-Id: <199301080926.AA06377@dkuug.dk> Via: uk.ac.open; Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:25:47 +0000 Received: from acsvax.open.ac.uk by mercury.open.ac.uk with MAIL-11 (PP) id <23772-0@mercury.open.ac.uk>; Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:25:42 +0000 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:25:42 +0000 From: M.Woodman@open.ac.uk (Mark Woodman, OU Computing Department) To: keld@dkuug.dk X-Vms-To: KELD Subject: More ideas for email guidance Sender: M.Woodman@open.ac.uk X-Charset: US-DK X-Char-Esc: 29 Status: OR From: OUMAIL::"kh@athens.cs.waikato.ac.nz" "Keith Hopper" 7-JAN-1993 21:46:45.84 To: SC22wg13@dkuug.dk CC: Subj: (SC22WG13.2) Mail truncation Greetings, May I mention one or tow known mail problems (which have nothing to do with dkuug, but have caused me untold difficulty) which may cause others problems too. Make sure if you use a word processor to prepare your e-mail that when sending to the mailer it actually inserts line-ends at the end of the lines visible on the screen and not just at the end of a 'paragraph' where you have typed an explicit line-end mark. There are mailers around which truncate at lengths from 250 to about 500 characters --- losing the rest of the 'line'. It is known that this problem also occurs with mail gates of some kind even if not at the destination machine. Known culprits include the Sun workstation mailer, MAC word processors and some PC ones, but not so far as I am aware Microsoft Word (well it may in versions I haven't had send me mail). The one further caution is that this truncation problem could arise to one destination out of a distribution list -- which may change now that the distribution node has changed. Regards, Keith PS Among the truncator's are VAX mailers and NeXt mailers of certain kinds or releases. I believe also that the bitnet gateway truncates (at least one does). -- (End of message; original message headers follow) Received: from nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by mercury.open.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP (PP) id <21044-0@mercury.open.ac.uk>; Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:46:39 +0000 Received: from dkuug.dk by sun3.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk with Internet SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:45:48 +0000 Received: by dkuug.dk id AA15729 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for SC22WG13-list); Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:28:42 +0100 Message-Id: <199301072128.AA15713@dkuug.dk> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:30:26 +1300 From: Keith Hopper X-Sequence: SC22WG13@dkuug.dk 2 Errors-To: SC22WG13-request@dkuug.dk Subject: (SC22WG13.2) Mail truncation To: SC22wg13@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: SC22WG13-request@dkuug.dk