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.

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