[Mimedefang] Bare returns in message body
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Nov 9 17:02:43 EST 2005
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:
> However, you're ALSO removing lone CRs in the process, CR characters
> that a MUA will see, and might react upon (it might even trigger
> a bug in the MUA... a bug which is scanned for in some virus scanner,
> but that fails to detect it because the CR characters aren't there.
> This is speculation, however).
I'm becoming convinced that I should leave the lone CRs in...
Here's another question: What do we do about lone LF's? The problem
here is that on UNIX, a lone LF looks just like a line termination.
On a Mac, it looks like an embedded LF, and on Windows, I have no
idea. So once again, the UNIX-based software might interpret the
message differently from Windows- or Mac-based software.
What I propose doing is releasing a beta version of MIMEDefang that
has a command-line option not to suppress lone CR's or LF's (though
I'm rapidly running out of letters! :-))
Existing behaviour of stripping CR's will continue by default. After
enough people have tested that not stripping them doesn't blow things
up, I will probably make it so we keep lone CR's and LF's intact.
Regards,
David.
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