From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 10:23:26 CST

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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:59:38PM +0000, scott.postfixscottrix.co.uk wrote:

> >The MUA (mutt) is responsible for submitting valid content. What are you
> >doing with mutt, and what MIME content is mutt generating? Configure
> >mutt to use a custom "sendmail" that just saves the message to a disk
> >file. Report what you find in the disk file...
>
> A text file is produced with the email in it, the attachment is text/plain
> and the attachment has CRLF for each of it's lines.

This is wrong. The message must either use CRLF for all message lines
(RFC822 message) or LF for all message lines (unix message file).

> It seems the problem is with the MUA (mutt) and I believe that mutt gets
> the mime type from libmagic which also reports text/plain for the DOS text
> file. It can the tell the difference since "file dos.txt" gives

The MIME type is not the problem, mutt should be stripping the CR when
encoding the text file into a message whose headers and body are LF
terminated.

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        Viktor.

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