Title
Newline Escapes for Post by Email
Short, concise description of the idea
Solve the problem of post-by-email interacting poorly with the email line-length-maximum specified in RFCs 2821 and 5321.
Full description of the idea
Post-by-email (w/o lj-raw) observes hard returns as meaningful formatting (i.e. makes them into
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An alternative would be using format=flowed (RFC3676), which I think LJ does properly, as long as your client does. (IIRC, some clients incorrectly delete the end-of-line space on which format=flowed relies.) Again, if this doesn't work, it may be a bug on one side or an interaction between not-quite-bugs.
If you try (or tried) either, I'm interested in the results.
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(To be clear, this truncation isn't a behavior of my client, it's Sendmail, the out-going SMTP server and still quite a common one. I researched why Sendmail is doing this, and the upshot is because the standard requires it. Discussed this with Support and they bounced me here.)
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(Is this all just not a problem which other people ever run into? Or what do people who can't generate custom MIME headers in their email do?)
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