On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 05:18 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > Exim's behaviour is "guess what was meant". it actually checks the line > > ending of the first line in the message to determine what convention the > > sender prefers. if it sends CRLF, Exim will *only* accept CRLF for the > > rest of the message. the same is true for LF. > > I've never had a need to check, but the question then arises.. to the > extent Exim has shifted mode to whatever was put on its plate, does it > then follow suit when adding lines? > > And/or does it 'repair' some/all/no non-conforming lines before onpassing?
unfortunately, Exim uses LF internally, so a CRLF message will still get LF terminated headers in the spool. LF is always converted to CRLF when sent. note that the *body* is untouched no matter what, for better or for worse. I think making Exim use CRLF in its queue would be a worthwhile fix, but it's probably quite a bit of work. the upside is that *sending* the message requires no massage to be done, and you can even use modern syscalls like sendfile(2). final delivery to a Unix mbox would need to change CRLF to LF, of course. (disclaimer: I haven't looked at this code since 4.52 or thereabouts). -- regards, Kjetil T. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
