RE: Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpd&qmail-queue procs

[Dave Sill]

"James Blondin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>The answer you gave was useful, Dave, but although I didn't realize it at
>first, my question is really relating to the RFCs more than to qmail's
>implementation.  It's just that qmail's implementation of it led me to
>asking the question.

In that case, qmail is not strictly RFC822 compliant in rejecting
messages with bare linefeeds. Apparently Dan felt that the effort
necessary to allow messages to contain LF's was more trouble than it
was worth--especially considered that 822bis prohibits bare LF's.

-Dave