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On 8 Apr 00, at 13:01, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
> (1) Is it better to write an SMTPd that is strict to the RFCs or
> lenient? That is, where does one go to settle disputes -- or is it
> better to sit back and miss mail due to differences in interpreting
> the RFCs? Ie: if an smtpd accepts bare linefeeds, etc., is that
> really all that bad on incoming?
The problem is - you need to send CR/LF forward. You can't be
sure that simple changing LF to CR/LF is the right thing - you may
be in the middle of binary data and LF should not be interpreted as
"new line" there.
sendmail converts all bare LFs it sees to CR/LF. It may corrupt the
mail, and it falsely assures the sender that his mails are OK. On
the other hand, it doesn't ask the administrator to do anything.
You may run all incoming (and I mean ALL) mail through fixcrio.
Then you don't need to care.
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