Looking through man fetchmail I read:

   The 'forcecr' option controls whether lines terminated by LF only are
   given CRLF termination before forwarding.  Strictly speaking RFC821
   requires this, but few MTAs enforce the requirement it so this option
   is normally off (only one such MTA, *qmail*, is in significant use at
   time of writing).

Searching the list-archive I've seen many postings which contain forcecr
as an option in the .fetchmailrc file.

I'am not using this option and qmail works without problems. Furthermore
reading http://cr.yp.to/smtp/request.html I can't see any reason for
using the forcecr option. Dan Bernstein only recommends that servers
should look only for LF.

So my questions are:

- Is the forcecr option obsolet for the use with qmail?
- Have there been problems with fetchmail and qmail without this option?

TIA, Martin

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