> Hi Paul, > > Paul Keogh wrote: > > > -1. > > > > IMHO, this badly breaks MIME handling. If you have to override > > the MIME separator, it should at least be configurable. > > can you point this out a bit more, please? >
My understanding is that the MIME RFCs specify a canonical encoding of a "blank line" or separator of <cr><lf>. The obvious use of this is to get around differences across operating systems in this regard. (Think UNIX vs. Microsoft). So accepting a <lf> as a MIME separator may well get you over the problem of a broken peer implementation but it will potentially cause problems elsewhere. So, as Aarno suggests, if you need to break MIME functionality, you should have to explicitly turn it on, in the full knowledge of what you are doing. It should not go into the code base as a default behaviour.
