Re: [exim] Additional line in body when submitting?

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Autor: Andrew C Aitchison
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Para: Kamil Jońca
CC: exim-users
Assunto: Re: [exim] Additional line in body when submitting?
On Thu, 2 Jun 2022, Kamil Jońca via Exim-users wrote:

> Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <exim-users@???> writes:
>
>> Doh. I am so stupid.
>>
>> I finally looked at the docs for the pipe transport, and there is the
>> answer staring at me.
>>
>>
>> ===========================
>> message_suffix     Use: pipe     Type: string†     Default: see below

>>
>> The string specified here is expanded and output at the end of
>> every message. The default is unset if use_bsmtp is set. Otherwise
>> it is a single newline. The suffix can be suppressed by setting
>>
>> message_suffix=
>> ===========================
>>
> Wow! Thanks for clarification. So it seems that is expected behavior.
> But ... why such default walue?
> Especially when other transports does not do that?


It was very common (and still isn't unusual) for unix scripts that
work in pipelines to process data a line at a time. I guess at least
one of them would either hang or drop the incomplete last line
if the data did not end with a newline.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                    Kendal, UK
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