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Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:08:40 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Sam Edge wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in
> <20031017093307 DOT GK25076 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de>
> in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:33:07 +0200:
> 
> > I'm not familar with the mail-related RFCs.  Is
> > it allowed to send lines with DOS lineendings?
> 
> The RFCs for SMTP e-mail (RFC2821 and its predecesors) /require/ CR-LF
> ("\r\n" i.e. "DOS") line endings. (Probably because debugging using
> dumb terminals or printers was easier that way in days of yore.)

Interesting.  So a check as in ssmtp:

  while ((fgets (buffer, sizeof buffer, stdin) != NULL) && (buffer[0] != '\n'))
    {
      /* It's a header line */
    }

seems a bit oversimplified, right?

Corinna

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