Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:33:07 +0200:

> I'm not familar with the mail-related RFCs.  Is
> it allowed to send lines with DOS lineendings?

The RFCs for SMTP e-mail (RFC2821 and its predecesors) /require/ CR-LF
("\r\n" i.e. "DOS") line endings. (Probably because debugging using
dumb terminals or printers was easier that way in days of yore.)

Regards,
-- 
Sam Edge

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