pre-populating email subject with a long sentence

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I am trying to pre-populate email subject with a rather long sentence. The mail client cuts half of it off though. Is there a way around it?

click here Ah, just realised that it cuts it off on the & It doesn't seem to like neither & nor & — user3592447, May 01 '14 at 11:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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As it is shown here What is the email subject length limit?, there is an intrinsic limitation for each subject's line, which is of 998 (the maximum allowed), with a suggestion to limit to 78 characters.

The answer I linked suggests to add a carriage return, in order to overcome the limit.

So, instead of having as header:

Subject: This is a test

You should have:

Subject: This
is a test

You can try with the urlencoded version of a carriage return, which is: %0D

It's not the best solution (since having the subject on multiple lines is not the best), but it could be a good workaround to this limitation.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered May 01 '14 at 11:06

clami219

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is there a special code for '&'? it doesn't like it, nor the & – user3592447 May 01 '14 at 11:20
For '&' it's '%26'. Check the full list here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp – clami219 May 01 '14 at 11:21

Abhishek Kumar Tiwari · Answer 2 · 2014-05-01T11:12:58.473

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we can do it by

<a href="mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=your%20subject>

no more chaeracters than a 998.avoid returns

edited May 01 '14 at 11:12

answered May 01 '14 at 11:03

Abhishek Kumar Tiwari

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That doesn't answer the question. – Quentin May 01 '14 at 11:05
oops,bad reading. well it has the limit of around a 1000 characters,you may avoid returns.But surely that will not help you much.But i believe a long subject is least preferable – Abhishek Kumar Tiwari May 01 '14 at 11:10

pre-populating email subject with a long sentence

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