Stephen,

Thanks for the quick answer.

>>  Its a known issue.

>>  The program you use to mail the output of SMIME_write_PKCS7() shouldn't
>>  really
>>  care what the EOL character is. However some do and other operations such
>>  as
>>  opening the file as a .eml file also care about EOL. When I tested this it
>>  didn't seem to matter what characters were in the signatue (base64)
>>  section:
>>  just the headers and content.

>>  Getting CR+LF in the signature section is a bit messy at the OpenSSL
>>  level, it
>>  would require the additions of various flags in the base64 BIO and the
>>  underlying encoder. This would break binary compatibility in the 0.9.7X
>>  series
>>  which is why I didn't implement it there.

>From what I read RFC2045 recommends CRLF for EOLs. So, probably the mail clients that 
>have this as requirement are correct.

>>  There's no reason something couldn't be done in 0.9.8 I just haven't got
>>  round to it yet.

I'm looking forward to see it implemented. 


Thanks again,
Cosmin
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