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. -- Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon Bookworms: http://ouroboros.demesne.com/ SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
