"James Blondin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The question I have is, and
>excuse my ignorance if it's something silly: why not just accept the bare
>linefeeds? From what I can understand in RFC822, there's nothing wrong
>with bare linefeeds in the body of the messages as long as the headers
>have all the right CRLFs. From looking through qmail archives and reading
>a few webpages, all I can find is some reference to the fact that you
>shouldn't have bare linefeeds after the smtpd process. Anyone have any
>more specifics about this? Is it to protect mailers that don't know how
>to interpret bare linefeeds? Or something integral to the MTA?
The problem is simple. If a message contains a bare linefeed, qmail
will convert it to a premature end-of-line if it resends the
message. E.g.:
This message consists of one line\012with an embedded linefeed.
Will become:
This message consists of one line
with an embedded linefeed.
-Dave
