It appears there are sites out there that terminate their replies to
SMTP commands with just LF rather than CRLF, as RFC 821 demands.
Furthermore, it appears that sendmail and smail are able to send
messages to such sites, whereas Exim can't, as it is following the RFC.
Under such pressure, I feel that I probably have to change Exim, but
what do others think? At least one Exim user supports it:
John Henders writes:
> Well, I'd love to be able to be strict about this stuff, and I deplore
> the broken implementations, but there has always been a principle of net
> software that it be liberal in what it accepts and strict about what it
> sends. Because both smail and sendmail in this case have set the
> standard to accept this broken behaviour, I feel in this case we have no
> choice but to go along with it. Unfortunate but true.
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