On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Sam Edge wrote:
> 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.)
Interesting. So a check as in ssmtp:
while ((fgets (buffer, sizeof buffer, stdin) != NULL) && (buffer[0] != '\n'))
{
/* It's a header line */
}
seems a bit oversimplified, right?
Corinna
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