>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:36:22 +0000, >>>>> John Holman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (jh) writes:
jh> We have hit a problem previously reported to this list by Frank jh> Richter on Sept 27 last year. It affects users of Cyrus with Exim jh> (and possibly some other MTAs). Apparently not with Sendmail nor Postfix. jh> Messages generated by Cyrus's lmtpd (e.g. as the result of a sieve jh> vacation or reject rule) are created with CRLF as line terminators jh> and piped to the mail program (by default sendmail, which in our jh> case is actually exim). Messages presented to sendmail in this way jh> should, I think, conform to the Unix conventions for line jh> termination rather than those for SMTP, and therefore not contain CR jh> characters. To quote RFC2033: Although LMTP is an alternative protocol to ESMTP, it uses (with a few changes) the syntax and semantics of ESMTP. This design permits LMTP to utilize the extensions defined for ESMTP. That and no comments about deviating from ESMTP in how lines are to be terminated would seem to imply that Cyrus is doing the correct thing. Actually, this RFC is authored by John G. Myers, one of the original Cyrus developers. -- Amos
