[Mimedefang] Bare returns in message body

Aleksandar Milivojevic alex at milivojevic.org
Wed Nov 16 10:36:54 EST 2005


Quoting Jan Pieter Cornet <johnpc at xs4all.nl>:

> Patching sendmail to reject on bare LF terminated lines is likely
> asking for a LOT of trouble. Since traditionally sendmail doesn't care
> if you used CRLF or just LF, it's likely that lots of (local, unix-
> specific) programs submit messages using only LF line endings. Some
> programs might even implicitly rely on the fact that sendmail
> "corrects" the line endings.

You are right there.  Sendmail is one of the "be liberal what you accept, be
strict what you send" projects.  Unfortunately in this case, it is not strict
enough in what it is sending...  Kinda getting of topic for this mailing
list...

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