diff --git a/src/sbbs3/putmsg.cpp b/src/sbbs3/putmsg.cpp
index dd72881f90a7a92eaaed06454f4181aebe194be5..d709e8fd09f51b079dc6d8626b639458cd30beb0 100644
--- a/src/sbbs3/putmsg.cpp
+++ b/src/sbbs3/putmsg.cpp
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * @format.tab-size 4		(Plain Text/Source Code File Header)			*
  * @format.use-tabs true	(see http://www.synchro.net/ptsc_hdr.html)		*
  *																			*
- * Copyright 2010 Rob Swindell - http://www.synchro.net/copyright.html		*
+ * Copyright 2011 Rob Swindell - http://www.synchro.net/copyright.html		*
  *																			*
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or			*
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License				*
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ char sbbs_t::putmsg(const char *buf, long mode)
 		putcom("\x02\x02");
 	if(mode&P_WORDWRAP) {
 		char *wrapped;
-		if((wrapped=::wordwrap((char*)buf, cols-4, cols-1, WORDWRAP_FLAG_QUOTES)) == NULL)
+		if((wrapped=::wordwrap((char*)buf, cols-1, 79, WORDWRAP_FLAG_QUOTES)) == NULL)
 			errormsg(WHERE,ERR_ALLOC,"wordwrap buffer",0);
 		else
 			str=wrapped;