Package: exim4-daemon-light Version: 4.67-8 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/exim4
I challenge you to send yourself a mail which upon reciept doesn't end in \n \n according to od(1) -c. That's right, no matter how you send the mail, even $ echo -n yyy|mutt me it will still end with \n in /var/spool/exim4/input/*-D which is OK. But what bugs me is in ~/.procmail/backup/bla #or wherever you intercept it or whatever file you save it in with your favorite mail reader, it will end in \n\n. Let's examine a slice of /var/mail/jidanni, at the boundary of two mails. !Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:44:41 +0800 ! !xxx ! !From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 21 15:46:28 2007 Now change all those boundaries to !Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:44:41 +0800 ! !xxx !From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 21 15:46:28 2007 Now use your favorite mail reader. Same number of messages. In gnus one can even see that the \n\n is now \n. However each mail reader's save function still saves them as \n\n. So maybe long ago everybody aggreed to always have two newlines for 'safety'... so I give up. Never mind. The only thing I see in the manual is "All messages transmitted over SMTP must end with a newline, so Exim supplies one if it is missing." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
