docs: correct RFC specifying email line length
authorbrian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Sun, 8 Jul 2018 22:17:13 +0000 (22:17 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mon, 9 Jul 2018 17:55:12 +0000 (10:55 -0700)
The git send-email documentation specifies RFC 2821 (the SMTP RFC) as
providing line length limits, but the specification that restricts line
length to 998 octets is RFC 2822 (the email message format RFC). Since
RFC 2822 has been obsoleted by RFC 5322, update the text to refer to RFC
5322 instead of RFC 2821.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 2f32dbf16d1dc61528cae1a761cbd5d5406a893b..465a4ecbeddaa20189bce6e223df8bbfa0319b9a 100644 (file)
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
                        998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding
                        ('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used;
                        this is due to SMTP limits as described by
-                       http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
+                       http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt.
 --
 +
 Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,