From: Luca Berra (blucacomedia.it)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 12:11:54 CST

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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:26:26PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>Luca Berra:
>> speaking of <CR> without <LF> i am receiving a lot of spam with bare
>> <CR> in the headers, and at least one with a <CR> in the body.
>> I'd like to stop it, do i have to use header/body checks or did i miss
>> something?
>> L.
>
>Quoting from smtp_stream.c, this is how Postfix handles some common
>protocol violations.
>
> /*
> * Strip off the record terminator: either CRLF or just bare LF.
> *
> * XXX RFC 2821 disallows sending bare CR everywhere. We remove bare CR
> * if received before CRLF, and leave it alone otherwise.
> */

would you consider adding some code for strict rfc2821 compliance, i
think i can produce a patch for it. (i deliver all my mail to a cyrus
server that just rejects it anyway)

Regards,
L.

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