Subj : Re: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Aug 26 2019 12:59 am
Re: Re: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Mon Aug 26 2019 09:16 am
> RS> How does *your* implementation handle these fields? What would happen
> RS> if you received a Stored Message where byte 71 (the 72nd byte) of the
> RS> "subject" was non-null? Or if you received a packet that included a
> RS> 72-character subject followed by a null? Both of these conditions do
> RS> not appear to violate FTS-1, but I'm not sure how other programmers
> RS> have interpetted these specs over the years.
>
> I checked the fmail source: it reads a maximum of 72 bytes (untill and
> including a NULL) from the pkt file for the subject. It doesn't care if byte
> 71 isn't a NULL (when the maximum of 72 bytes are read), but it forces it to
> NULL before further processing. So effectively limiting the subject to 71
> characters. If the byte after 72 subject characters would be NULL, it
> regards that as the 1st byte of the next field. So that would mean a message
> body of 0 characters.
