On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Smith: > > Hi, > > > > I'm hoping to obtain some confirmation on the data format the sendmail > > interface expects, I am under the impression that as a NIX program it > > will expect emails using LF for new lines as opposed to the SMTP > > standard of CRLF. How does this apply to line folding? Does Postfix then > > expect LFWSP as opposed to CRLFWSP? > > The Postfix sendmail command expects a PRE-FORMATTED message. The > result of ill-formatted messages is undefined (gargabe in, garbage > out). > > The format should be consistent with RFC 5322 (RFC 2822, RFC 822) > and with MIME if applicable. Text is expected to be in native UNIX > stream-LF format.
A little offtopic maybe but are there rfc2822 rfc822 validator programs out there? I have not encountered one but it sure would be handy to send an output of a validator program to some developers to give them a kick to make the programs a little more complient with the rfc. -- Simple things make people happy. Willy De la Court PGP Public Key at http://www.linux-lovers.be/download/public_key.asc PGP Key fingerprint = 784E E18F 7F85 9C7C AC1A D5FB FE08 686C 37C7 A689
