Markus Sch??pflin:
> Am 17.12.2010 13:16, schrieb Wietse Venema:
> > Markus Sch?pflin:
> >> Am 16.12.2010 13:14, schrieb Wietse Venema:
>
> [...]
>
> >> OTOH I'm still wondering whether this is something the cleanup daemon
> >> should be able to do? Opinions?
> >
> > Yes. SMTP protocol issues should be dealt with in the SMTP client
> > and server (including CRLF line endings and line length issues).
> > The rest of Postfix should just handle email in a manner that is
> > protocol-neutral.
>
> But this is *not* an SMTP protocol issue (RFC 2821), IMHO.
>
> It's rather a violation of the message format as defined in RFC 2822. (See
> chapter 2.1.1: "... Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998
> characters ...".) Also the manual page for cleanup explicitly lists RFC
> 2822 as applicable standard.
If you believe that Postfix's job is to convert random garbage into
well-formed email, then perhaps you should switch mail software.
Wietse
