At 16:05 24/01/02, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:49:59 +0000 (GMT) > From: Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, John Holman wrote: > > > Messages generated by Cyrus's lmtpd (e.g. as the result of a sieve > vacation > > or reject rule) are created with CRLF as line terminators and piped > to the > > mail program (by default sendmail, which in our case is actually > > exim). Messages presented to sendmail in this way should, I think, > > conform to the Unix conventions for line termination rather than > those for > > SMTP, and therefore not contain CR characters. > >Sendmail has, for many many years, dynamically adjusted to CRLF >instead of LF. I suppose I could pass the "-ba" flag, which might >tell /usr/lib/sendmail to expect CRLF, but I'd worry that any sendmail >wrapper that doesn't deal with CRLF won't deal with the -ba flag.
Certainly that doesn't seem to be a flag that Exim recognizes, so it wouldn't help in this particular case. >I suppose I should just make Cyrus connect to an SMTP server so I know >what sort of beast I'm dealing with. I think that would be a good thing to do. John.