[H-GEN] Mail problems

[David Wood]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Wood <dwood at plugged.net.au>)

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, Michael Anthon wrote:
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au>)
> MSES is definitely sending the . to terminate the message,
> although it is not *quite* RFC compliant I think.  I am told (although have
> not verified it myself) that the RFC specifies <LF>.<LF> as the DATA
> termination string, MSES is (of course) sending <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>, which
> works quite happily anyway (otherwise we would never get ANY mail out).

Negative.  RFC 821 specifies that a DATA command is terminated by a
CRLF.CRLF combination.  CRLF is the network-standard line separator, not
just LF.

As unfortunate as it may seem, in this case MSES is doing the right thing.
 Of course, it took them about 15 years to get this far...

Note that I'm not saying that MSES is doing everything right (I still
suspect that this problem is being caused by an MSES configuration error),
but CRLF.CRLF is correct.

Cheers,
Dave
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