Re: [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: check for lines longer than 998 characters

> According to RFC2822 (Internet Message Format), each line of a message
> must be no more than 998 characters. This patch adds a check for the
> length of each body line of a message and dies if the length exceeds
> the limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Piątyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  git-send-email.perl |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index e47994a..6d623ea 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
>  				$header_done = 1;
>  			}
>  		} else {
> +			if (length($_) > 998) {
> +				die "(msg) This message contains lines longer than 998 characters,\nwhich can not be correctly send as plain text using SMTP.\n";
> +			}
>  			$message .=  $_;
>  			if (/^(Signed-off-by|Cc): (.*)$/i && $signed_off_cc) {
>  				my $c = $2;