Aaron Nabil writes:
> Robin Bowes writes...
> >I'm seeing the above error message in the log for my MS Mail gateway
> >(MailBeamer), but only for 1 particular message.
> >
> > . . .
> >I've looked at Dan's explanation of the problem and I am aware of the
> >SMTP LF issue. My problem is why should this error occur just for 1
> >message? I mean, if *every* message had the same problem, I could
> >understand it and would put it down to a broken program, but for just 1
> >message to cause the error? Seems strange to me...
>
> The problem is Qmail.
>
> The message in question had a "bare LF" in it, perfectly legal, but
> qmail barfs on them. I just posted a message describing the
> phenomena in more detail.
Aaron, how would you store the following one-line message sequence of
characters received by a DATA command into a Unix mailbox without
losing information? Nevermind which MTA is doing it -- just tell me
what you think the Unix mailbox would look like at the end of the process.
"<headers><CR><LF>beginning of line 1<LF>more of line 1<CR><LF>".
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