On Tue, 03 Feb 1998 08:56:18 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>I guess there are spec problems here - there isn't an RFC that I know of
>for pop send although I know a couple of versions do this (cucipop is
>*not* one of them).
I think what is going on, is the pop daemon just directs the input
to a file (along with the CRLF's).
>Both SMTP & POP specify that text transfer should be done in canonical
>form - ie line endings are \r\n - so the transfers appear to be being done
>right. However the pop daemon should set the line ends right for the
>local system if doing local mail submission.... and it looks like things
>are falling apart here. I guess that sendmail is always stripping \r`s
>and so things just work.
Yes this is an Exim problem. My ISP is also using qpopper 2.2 on his
box along with sendmail 8.8.5. I POP send from his machine strips the
CR's. As far as he knows, they did not modify the qpopper they are using.
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