Check the archives, I seem to remember something about fixrcio or some tool
named similar to fixup broken windows messages before they hit qmail-smtpd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Fladwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: Trailing Spaces?
> Do you (or anyone else) have any idea how I would go about making this
> modification? There are hundreds of messages being rejected because of
it,
> and some users arn't happy about my suggestion to upgrade to a new client.
>
> If I can't get this solved I might have to go back to sendmail for a
while.
> :(
>
> I would imagine a fix couldn't be that hard, but I don't know much about C
> at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Stumpf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Trailing Spaces?
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:28:28AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Please explain a little more clearly. What trailing spaces? What
> rejected
> > mail? Are you referring perhaps to the bare linefeed problem?
>
> I see this occasionally. The problem ist that some idiotic mailprograms
> don't remove " " or even a "\n" at the end of an email address.
> (The "\n" probably happens when the user inputs the address in a
> GUI window and "incorrectly" presses <enter>).
>
> These emails are seen by qmail-smtpd as
> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> or
> MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> and rejected.
>
> And to answer the question:
> - no, I don't know of any patch, but it shouldn't be hard to modify
> qmail-smtpd if you really think you have to.
> - I personally wouldn't do it. The client is broken.
>
> \Maex
>
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