As a followup, the following script seems to work for scrubbing the bare
linefeeds off CFMAIL messages:
REReplaceNoCase(xfile, '([[:print:]])(#Chr(10)#)([[:print:]])',
'\1'&Chr(13)&Chr(10)&'\3', 'ALL')
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
elliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
f.770.460.0963
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 8:15 PM
> To: CF-Linux
> Subject: RE: CFMAIL and qmail
>
>
> I ran into this a little while back.
>
> CFMAIL will not send mail through a Qmail server. This is due, as you
> stated, to the bare linefeed problem. In the very most strict
> interpretation CF is violating RFC821 and RFC822 for email
> formatting. Most
> mail servers are a little more forgiving and allow mail malformed in this
> way through anyway. Qmail's author(s) happen to feel a little
> differently,
> and require mail to absolutely conform without bare linefeeds.
>
> *** This problem has been fixed in CF 5. ***
>
> My workaround was to point CF at a different mailserver, but I did see
> several other possible workarounds. Again, I haven't tested any of these,
> but feel free to give them a shot:
>
> 1) Try adding a CR manually to the end of each message line in
> your CF using
> #Chr()#
>
> 2) If you have control over the qmail server, there is a workaround in the
> qmail discussion list archives that I found once, which described
> modifying
> qmail so that it would accept mail. I think I bookmarked it at work, if
> you'd like me to check for the link when I get in on monday just mail me
> offlist.
>
> 3) I briefly attempted writing a "bare linefeed scrubber" into a V3 of the
> CF_ResendUndeliverableMail tag I've been working on, but I
> haven't been able
> to figure out the RegEx Required for it. If you figure it out,
> I'd love to
> have the regex... You could scedule an event using such a tag to
> scrub the
> linefeeds off the files after they end up in the undelivr directory, then
> copy them back into the spool using CFFILE.
>
> 4) Use a different SMTP server.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> -Cameron
>
> --------------------
> Cameron Childress
> elliptIQ Inc.
> p.770.460.7277.232
> f.770.460.0963
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dennis baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 12:43 PM
> > To: CF-Linux
> > Subject: CFMAIL and qmail
> >
> >
> > Has anyone successfully implemented CFMAIL and qmail? I'm aware
> > of the bare
> > LF problem but does anyone know of a workaround? The mail log reads:
> >
> > SMTP server replied "See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.";
> > Moved file
> > to /opt/coldfusion/mail/undelivr/filex4TWf5.cfmail"
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> >
>
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