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@@ -401,8 +401,11 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
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* Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
- * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this
- is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
+ * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
+ 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.
--
+
Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,