Am 17.12.2010 15:44, schrieb Wietse Venema:
Markus Schöpflin:
Am 17.12.2010 13:16, schrieb Wietse Venema:
Markus Sch?pflin:
Am 16.12.2010 13:14, schrieb Wietse Venema:
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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.
It was not my intention to cause any offence. Your reply makes make me
think I did, so please accept my apologies if this is the case.
And I certainly don't think that Postfix should convert random garbage into
well-formed email. Rather it should be rejected by Postfix.
But as Postfix already does a good job of cleaning up messages via its
cleanup daemon and as RFC 2822 is explicitly mentioned in the manual page I
ended up thinking that maybe this particular case should be handled in there.
Sorry for the trouble and thanks for your help,
Markus
