Lindsay Haisley writes:
 > Thus spake Russell Nelson on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:58:35AM CDT
 > > 
 > > Given the differing interpretations of bare linefeeds and
 > > carriage-returns, they must be disallowed by the SMTP specification,
 > > and they must not be accepted by SMTP clients or servers.
 > 
 > Russ, thanks.
 > 
 > How do you reconcile this with the draft spec, which appears to require that
 > receiving systems (SMTP servers) MUST process bare linefeeds in some
 > fashion.  Do you think I'm misreading the spec, and if so, in what way?

I would point out to the author of the spec that it is requiring that
messages be mangled when received on Unix systems.

Also, the patch is there on www.qmail.org, if it bothers you overmuch.

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