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Subject: Re: Bare LF
From: Bert Driehuis (driehuisplaybeing.org)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 19:37:26 CST

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 wietseporcupine.org wrote:

> > > Postfix sends bare LF's? If that was so, Postfix would surely be listed on
> > > http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html ?!
> >
> > Maybe it's a broken qmail at the other end, but this is my log:

> Due to its implementation, Postfix could not even send bare LF if
> it wanted to. All LFs are sent as CRLF.
>
> The only times the above problem happened was when people added
> code the the SMTP client themselves, in order to add a standard
> footer. They screwed up, and it would always happen right before
> the "." that ends the SMTP delivery.

Actually, I reported to Dan way back when that his "Lone LF" warning was
in fact also triggered by a lone CR. Mail sent from PC's sometimes
contained extra CR's in the message body, and sendmail passed those on
to the remote system as <CR><LF><CR>. Maybe the LF just feels lonely
because it's outnumbered. Right or wrong, the error message is
misleading (and the cc:Mail to SMTP gateway that produced them was wrong
in a lot of respects). I suggest the original poster look for stray CR's
that might wind up in the message body.

Cheers,

                                -- Bert

Bert Driehuis -- driehuisplaybeing.org -- +31-20-3116119
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