Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm still in discussions/arguments with the software company, who apparently
> uses Netscape's Messaging library to support their SMTP operations, to
> change their product so that it does not generate bare LFs. I'm not sure
> what progress I'm going to make with that, but any advice would be
> appreciated.
>
> On the other hand, I am going to take a stab at convincing my ISP to change
> their Qmail implementation so that it will accept bare LFs and convert them
> into CRLFs. I have found reference to a solution in the list archives (link
> below), but unfortunately, being completely unfamiliar with Qmail's
> internals, I am not going to be able to clearly communicate the solution to
> the engineers at my ISP based on this posting.
Something like fixcrio may do the trick for them; however, it's not good
practice to mangle customers' mail for them, as you can corrupt otherwise
properly formatted messages.
You have other options open which do not involve having the ISP change
anything. You could set up a simple qmail relay on your internal network;
have it pipe everything through fixcrio (with Dan's @fixme/fixup trick
and tcpserver), and use smtproutes to send all mail from there to your
ISP's smarthost. Then have your special (broken) software send its mail
to that machine instead of directly to your ISP's smarthost.
You could probably even do something simpler: use tcpserver, fixcrio,
tcpclient, and some shell magic to run this mail through fixcrio on the
fly, communicating directly with your ISP's smarthost from the broken
application. I haven't looked at this enough to know quite how to set it
up.
> What I am searching for is something similar to a Knowledge Base or FAQ
> article which would either assist me in understanding the changes which
> should be made, or that I could simply point the engineers at my ISP to.
> Without that, I am not sure that I will be able to effectively communicate
> the problem/solution.
This link might help:
http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html
But it helps your ISP's case, not yours. It basically says "qmail does it
right, fix your broken client. Here's some broken clients, and how to fix
them...".
Charles
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