Nice write up at...
http://blog.mailchannels.com/2008/10/update-to-email-standards.html
If not already posted here..
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Renaud Allard
> Sent: 03 October 2008 13:54
> To: Ian Eiloart
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] RFC 5321, 5322
>
>
>
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > People on this list will be interested to know that RFCs
> 2821 and 2822
> > (and some other related RFCs) have been deprecated by the release
> > yesterday of RFCs 5321 (SMTP) and 5322 (Internet Message
> Format) respectively.
> >
>
> I was just browsing RFC 5321 (not finished reading yet) It
> seems it implies that exim is not RFC 5321 compliant, for example:
> "
> Lines consist of zero or more data characters terminated by the
> sequence ASCII character "CR" (hex value 0D) followed
> immediately by
> ASCII character "LF" (hex value 0A). This termination sequence is
> denoted as <CRLF> in this document. Conforming
> implementations MUST
> NOT recognize or generate any other character or
> character sequence
> as a line terminator.
> "
>
> I don't think there is a way to make exim compliant with this
> one by modifying anything in the config file.
>
> Maybe it could be interesting to discuss the implications of
> RFC5321 and
> RFC5322 on current exim implementation.
>
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