At 11:01 AM 5/25/02 -0500, dman wrote: > >That sounds bad to me. I clearly recall a section of RFC821 stating >that an MTA MUST not mangle a message in any way. >
Nope, that's completely wrong. Technically, you can't even guarantee that the mailer won't change mail from 8bit to 7bit by some foul method, change it from ascii to EBCDIC, add blank lines, or do just about anything else it damn well pleases. For example, most mail recivers will accept LF, or CRLF as the end of line character, and convert it to the appropriate character(s) for the local system. On transmit, they convert to CRLF. But there is a general agreement that no changes to the body of an email should be done unless they are required or requested. As long as this is a user selectable option, I don't see any problem with it, though some might claim the default should be "off". Scott Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
