Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 7 September 2000 at 14:27:21 +0200
 > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:02:39PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
 > [snip]
 > > > 
 > > > It's clear that djb's talking about <0a>/LF EXCEPT in line end  
 > > > designators (which can either be CRLF or LF). So basically every message  
 > > > that does not contain LFs that are not line feeds is "safe".
 > > 
 > > I couldn't gather the "that are not line feeds" part from the docs.
 > 
 > I like that explanation but I still can't make it out of qmtp.txt.
 > 
 > qmtp.txt states 'a message is a sequence of lines' and 'a *message* is
 > called safe if none of its bytes are <0a>.'

The line terminator (conventionally a linefeed on Unix) isn't a part
of the line in this definition, I think.  At least, taking it that way
makes it all come together.  Then it ends up saying that the message
is safe so long as no line contains an embedded linefeed.
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