Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note that almost always you don't want to precisely follow RFC 821 here
> -- RFC 821 specifies \r\n line boundaries, but unix pipes almost always
> want \n line boundaries.
>
> Sendmail deals with this by silently discarding \r and respecting
> unix line boundaries.
>
> I don't know if there are any other "expected deviations" from 821.
Thanks.
It looks like sendmail only discards the \r if it precedes a \n.
Otherwise, it is preserved. Therefore, I added this note:
Note that RFC 821 specifies \r\n (CR-LF) line boundaries, but Unix
pipes almost always use \n (LF) line boundaries. To deal with
this, agents will accept both \r\n and \n as line boundaries.
Dan
