"David L. Parsley" wrote:
>
> I've tried to dig through the archives a few times, but haven't found
> good info on the problems people were having with 'message contains bare
> newlines'. I get several of these a week from the linux kernel mailing
> list.
>
> Messages like this get abandoned in /var/spool/mqueue; i.e., 'mailq'
> doesn't list 'em, but 'ls /var/spool/mqueue' sure does! Essentially, it
> seems like cyrus+sendmail just lets these messages drop on the floor -
> yech!
>
> Any clue whether this behavior was fixed in .25beta? I took a quick
> look at the code; nothing in the vicinity of the bare-newline check
> appeared to have changed. So I just put in an (UGLY) little hack, which
> munges a bare newline to an 'X'. I guess it would also be easy to make
> cyrus just ignore these, but I thought an X might stand out so I'd see
> where it's occuring. (not yet)
>
> I remember people saying bare newlines violated RFC's, but shouldn't
> cyrus be as lenient as possible in what it accepts, and as compliant as
> possible in what it sends/produces?
I didn't do anything, nor do I know of anything that was done regarding
bare newlines. I'll defer to Larry on this one.
Ken
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