When using exim to send mail from the knews newsreader, I noticed a
problem: a couple of blank lines were being added between each line of
text. I had a look at what knews was sending to exim, and this looked
fine:
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Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
References: <5hordg$91@???>
From: jts20@??? (Jacob Stevens)
Subject: Re: test
Newsgroups: ucam.test
To: jts20@??? (Jacob Stevens)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Reply to test.
In article <5hordg$91@???>,
jts20@??? (Jacob Stevens) writes:
> test.
.
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I then tried invoking exim manually (with the -t option, which is what
knews uses) and pasted the above text into the session: the message was
sent correctly, with no blank lines. Piping exactly the same text into
exim (cat foo | exim -t) caused the problem to occur, however.
Could this be a bug in exim, or am I just doing something stupid? I am
running it under Linux, by the way.
Jacob
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Jacob Stevens Email: jts20@???
Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL. Phone: (01223) 505919
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