Timothy J Luoma <luomat+procmail(_at_)luomat(_dot_)peak(_dot_)org> wrote,
<snip>
Timothy> > Are LFs automatically converted to CR+LFs by sendmail?
Timothy> > Or it does not really matter?
Timothy> > Or?
Timothy>
Timothy> I think whoever told you that was some sort of DOS-moron who thinks
that
Timothy> DOS/Windows defines "must be".
Timothy>
Timothy> Explain why that would be true (lf+cr) since UNIX machines were the
only
Timothy> ones using internet mail for many many moon.
Please read and comment on following excerpts from RFC texts.
CRLFs do not seem to have much to do with DOS-morons to me:-)
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Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
August 13, 1982 - 8 - RFC #822
Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
3.2. HEADER FIELD DEFINITIONS
These rules show a field meta-syntax, without regard for the
particular type or internal syntax. Their purpose is to permit
detection of fields; also, they present to higher-level parsers
an image of each field as fitting on one line.
field = field-name ":" [ field-body ] CRLF
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August 1982 RFC 821
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
The time stamp line and the return path line are formally
defined as follows:
<return-path-line> ::= "Return-Path:" <SP><reverse-path><CRLF>
<time-stamp-line> ::= "Received:" <SP> <stamp> <CRLF>
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