On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> Anoop Saldanha: > > Hi, > > > > On checking postfix I see that it also accepts just LF as the line > > delimiter, instead of a strict CR-LF. Is this okay, since the rfc says > that > > it should always be a CR-LF as the line delimiter? > > If Postfix enforced 100% RFC compliance, then it would not > be useful. > > When I implemented the SMTP server straight from RFC821, I found > that Postfix could not talk to lots of legitimate mail software. > > Over time, a extra code was added to Postfix so that it could talk > with legitimate systems, and not all this extra code has an "off" > switch. > > BTW this mailing list is for discussing of new postfix development. > Use postfix-users for general questions about Postfix. > > Wietse > * Moving thread to postfix-users from postfix-devel Right. What are the valid line delimiters allowed by postfix? CR-LF is accepted, LF seems to be accepted without the need for a preceding CR, but is CR without a LF a valid line delimiter? It seems postfix's state is being messed up on sending a CR without a LF. -- Anoop Saldanha
