>According to RFC 2822
>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
>...""There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a [email message] line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF."...."
>
>Of course the problem is that many services ignore that -AOL cuts it off a 60, HotMail is 45, Yahoo is 47, etc etc etc...and just to make things more difficult there are also limitations in the client software sometimes too - so Thunderbird VS Outlook can be different.

Thanks