On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:51:56AM +0100, Holger Sesterhenn wrote:

> I am playing around with PKCS7 mails and also have noticed the small 
> gliches when dealing with multipart/mime. (yes, I have spent some time 
> reading groups.google and the mailing list archives).
> 
> If I understand RFC2046 correctly every line ends with an CRLF. The 
> function PKCS7_sign() fransfers the data to be signed to the "canonical 
> form" using SMIME_crlf_copy(). Thats pretty nice. SMIME_write_PKCS7() and 
> B64_write_PKCS7() just use BIO_printf() with a single "\n" for the EOL, 
> especially when writing the boundary strings.
> 
> OK, thats not a real big mistake and most MTAs/MUAs do handle this releaxed 
> but I think if we have a RFC we should stick to it.
> 
> And the other reason is that I have to use a program (for which I don't 
> have the source code) which crashes without CRLF.
> 
> The current workaround is to copy the whole mail again with something like 
> my_crlf_copy(). That is a little bit annoying if you deal with some hundred 
> mails bigger than 10 MB within a few minutes...
> 
> What is you opinion?

There has been some discussion on that previously on this mailing
list.  Please review ticket 151 at https://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/rt2/
or read that thread in a mailing list archive:

     http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ah0d18%241qf9%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw

If you want to add something, please use the request tracker and add
to ticket #151.


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