Bletch! Stripping trailing blanks breaks format=flowed (see RFC 3676.)
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 4:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rexx not processing email formatting On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 18:26:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The separator line must have only CRLF; > ... True. However, since CMS and VM spool abominate empty records, the VM SMTP daemon strips trailing blanks, there by forgiving nonempty blank lines and, in turn, breaking classic uudecode which re-pads with NULs. > the data terminator must have only a period followed by CRLF. > I'll trust you on the standard, however the popular UNIX sendmail says: man sendmail ... -oi When reading a message from standard input, don't treat a line with only a . character as the end of input. (the message body ends, then, with end-of-file.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
