-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dear jeff,
> Given that the RFCs are vague, and that EVERY server we've tested > (except Courier) supports insanely long line lengths (we tested with > 1,000,000 byte-long lines), it looks incredibly bad for us > and Courier > that it doesn't work on our system. There's a lot of > RFC-enforcing that > I'm willing to argue for, but this one is just too far out there. > > Given this, what can we do? what's your intention with this? apparently you haven't testet EVERY AVAILABLE mta, so you might run into problems later. imagine courier accepting the mail from your customers. now what to do with this very long lines? well, for security, we'll just send them out. we could break the whole mail not only if it contains attachments, but also gpg/pgp-mails. just leave it with long lines. but what if the next-hop-server doesn't like our mails? right, they bounce. and with that, we give it back to your customers. seems to me, that you just want that problem off your shoulders, and that all mtas you've tested don't want to get involved with mailserver-admins like you complaining about software that was coded as the rfc says. i suggest then, you use whatever mta supports those long lines and later describe them that the recipients of their mails can't get them because you use a non-rfc-compliant mta. sincerely & wishing a nice weekend, sebastian lechte - -- GPG: http://sebastian.lechte.net/gpg_pubkey/ - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:+ a-- C++ UL++++ P+ L++ E--- W N+ o-- K- w O- M- V- PS PE- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X R tv+ b+ DI-- D+ G e* h+ r !y+ - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.93 iD8DBQFAnPhfZq9Jy2QYaj0RAvqGAJ9+oz3NZpdEi12AACtM9Zyhgqa4HwCdELYY EUQNfhnLX5kuSEZFSz+SBwc= =NFEF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
