RE: [exim] body line length limits

Philip Chambers wrote:

> RFC2822 section 2.1.1 says "Each line of characters MUST be no more
than
> 998 characters".
> By default exim does not reject messages which fail to comply with
this
> requirement.
> (...)
> I have only ever seen spam messages which exceed the limit so, if all
the
> popular e-mail clients are compliant, this would be another weapon in
the
> fight against spam.

While it may be true that all >998-chars-per-line email is spam, only a
very marginal number of spam messages actually violates that specific
RFC2822 statement. And I am quite positive that eg SpamAssassin would
check
for stuff like that.

--
Ben