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Subject: Re: Bare LF
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 14:48:16 CST

The Postfix client sends <CR> unmodified.

The Postfix SMTP client sends <LF> as <CR><LF>.

The Postfix SMTP server receives <CR><LF> as <LF>.

So, text containing <CR><LF> is sent as <CR> followed by <CR><LF>.

        Wietse

Pere Camps:
> Bert,
>
> > 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.
>
> That might be a reason. I'll look into it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- p.
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