[Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout for amodemconnection?

[Ben Stephens]

>>>I know it happens with the exchange servers at work so suspect it's
just a general quirk.  I just find it a little irritating as it messes
up the subject line (as it's doing with this email!), seems to be
removing spaces as well :-/ Odd!<<<

I think that this is something to do with RFC 2045, which specifies
how to encode e-mails or possibly MIME e-mails. An except from
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html says

(5)   (Soft Line Breaks) The Quoted-Printable encoding
          REQUIRES that encoded lines be no more than 76
          characters long.  If longer lines are to be encoded
          with the Quoted-Printable encoding, "soft" line breaks

          must be used.  An equal sign as the last character on a
          encoded line indicates such a non-significant ("soft")
          line break in the encoded text.

so maybe it has something to do with that,
although, str_len('subject: ') + 60 + str_len('=\r\n') only equals 73,
where's those other characters gone? And maybe you don't count the
=\r\n any way. Hmmm, I wonder whether me typing in =\r\n will mess up
this email at all.

Ben


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:33:16 +0000, Mark Broadbent <markb at wetlettuce.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:55 +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
> > Broadbent
> 
> > >On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:47 +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > >>> When I am talking about background Internet activity, I am not
> > talking about web browser sessions >tc, although these count of course.
> > What I am talking about are all the broadcasts, connection attempts and
> > pings etc that go on whilst connected which of course resets the timer.
> >
> > >What you basically need is to use the active-filter configuration
> > directive in pppd.  This allows >you to specify what pppd will consider
> > as active traffic and should solve the idle timeout problem.
> >
> > >I found this http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x7297.html that
> > lists the active-filter >directive and this
> > http://users3.ev1.net/~ckite/public_html/enhanced-idle.html actually
> > gives a >couple of example filter expressions (the expression are
> > libpcap expressions I believe).
> >
> > Thanks - I wish I had seen this a couple of years ago!
> >
> > >BTW, Why does Microsoft Exchange insist on putting a tab character at
> > the 60 character in the >subject line?
> >
> > Interesting that - it does some other weird stuff, but not noticed that.
> > Is this on all my messages to this list, or have you noticed it
> > elsewhere?
> 
> I know it happens with the exchange servers at work so suspect it's just
> a general quirk.  I just find it a little irritating as it messes up the
> subject line (as it's doing with this email!), seems to be removing
> spaces as well :-/ Odd!
> 
> >  We use a pritty much default config with SP1.  The reason we
> > use it here is that we have several plugins for clergy use - i.e,
> > timetraq which is a calendar plug-in which takes account of shared
> > clergy time on specific set periods, and also church events, and another
> > plugin for list/roter generations etc.
> >
> 
> --
> Mark Broadbent <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> Web: http://www.wetlettuce.com/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Herefordshire mailing list
> Herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire
>