Re: [Exim] Cyrus/Exim incompatibility

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Lähettäjä: Ken Murchison
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Vastaanottaja: exim-users
Kopio: John Holman, info-cyrus, Frank.Richter
Aihe: Re: [Exim] Cyrus/Exim incompatibility

Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, John Holman wrote:
>
> > Messages generated by Cyrus's lmtpd (e.g. as the result of a sieve vacation
> > or reject rule) are created with CRLF as line terminators and piped to the
> > mail program (by default sendmail, which in our case is actually
> > exim). Messages presented to sendmail in this way should, I think,
> > conform to the Unix conventions for line termination rather than those for
> > SMTP, and therefore not contain CR characters.
>
> This is also my view.
>
> > This suggests that exim's author, at least, would consider Cyrus to be
> > broken in this respect!
>
> I am Exim's author.


Is there a spec or reference which states that when sending a message to
an MTA via stdin that only LF should be used as the line terminator? Or
are people saying that this is best common practice?

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