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

[James Blondin]

Dave Sill wrote:
> 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.
>
This basically answers my question.  My only other query would be as to
what made allowing messages to contain LFs so troublesome.  Any specific
reasons?

Thanks much,
Jamie Blondin