On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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:
Let's make this kind of liberal behaviour an option,
which is not on by default in order to draw the
postmaster's attention to nonconformant sites, and maybe
let them know that talking their broken dialect of SMTP
is a courtesy extended to them, not an obligation.
Ilya
