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wordwrap email

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:46 pm
by oboedrew
One of the books I've been studying lately is Larry Ullman's "PHP 6 and MYSQL 5." On p.292 of this book, he says that when sending email with php, the wordwrap function should be used to limit each line of the email to seventy characters. Is this really necessary? If so, can anyone explain why? Perhaps there's a good reason, but it seems somewhat arbitrary, and no explanation is given in the book.

Thanks,
Drew

Re: wordwrap email

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:20 pm
by Benjamin
I believe you have to do it in order to conform to the email specifications. I'm not certain that the native mail function doesn't do this automatically however. Chris would probably know more about this as he's the email expert.