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

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Ben,

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 08:52 +0000, Ben Stephens wrote:
> 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.

I think is referring to the body of the message only - the headers have
to be formatted in ASCII.  The content encoding is specified in the
header so you wouldn't know what the encoding was before it was parsed
it.

> 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.

Doubtful as the content encoding is not quoted-printable. ;)

Mark

> 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
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Herefordshire mailing list
> Herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire
> 
-- 
Mark Broadbent <markb at wetlettuce.com>