From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 10:44:40 CST

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Michael Hirdes:
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> happy new year,
>
> sorry, if this has been discussed before, but i don't find any hints on
> the net;
>
> problem is:
>
> we run postfix 1.10, mysql, spammassassin.
>
> all runs fine, but some clients (verified on entourage) are breaking
> mails.
>
> this means, the mail is sent correctly, but is cut of on some point. we
> tried to reproduce it and found, that for some reason, this client
> doubles some dots ( .. instead of .) so, if it does so after a <cr>
> postfix correctly interpretes this as an EOF .

This is not right. SMTP requires that lines end in <CR><LF>; sending
<CR> without <LF> is illegal, as is sending <LF> without <CR>.

> my question is: has anybody an idea how to teach postfix, to handle this
> ? or will it be fixed in 2.0 ? schould i upgrade then ? ( i know, i
> should upgrade in any case, but my main problem atm is to fix this
> problem.. )

Fix the program that sends invalid mail.

        Wietse

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