At 03:36 PM 8/23/97 -0400, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
Author: Mitsuru Furukawa <furu(_at_)009(_dot_)com>
Original-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 19:13:59 +0900
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I heard that internet mails must use CR+LF and not LF.
If it is true, what happens to my mails created in recipe
which seems to be using LFs since it is in UNIX world.
Are LFs automatically converted to CR+LFs by sendmail?
Or it does not really matter?
Or?
I think whoever told you that was some sort of DOS-moron who thinks that
DOS/Windows defines "must be".
Explain why that would be true (lf+cr) since UNIX machines were the only
ones using internet mail for many many moon.
Ah, Timothy, it *is* true though. Check out RFC822.
Why, I don't know. Probably someone powerful with a brain-dead OS
insisted on it when the standards were being negotiated. It does
seem kind of silly to waste bandwidth on all those useless CR bytes,
but that's not going to change now. Imagine the mess.
It shouldn't matter to anyone, though, except those writing MTA's
such as sendmail. In going UNIX-to-UNIX, sending side adds CR,
receiving side takes it off. Invisible to nearly everyone.
Cheers,
Stan