Could this be applied to a single user on a machine. Our web reporting
software sends the wrong linefeeds, but we have cgi scripts that work
correctly?
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John McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Administrator
Central Systems
Mills College
510-430-3321
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Bare linefeeds not accepted by Qmail?
> Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm still in discussions/arguments with the software company, who
apparently
> > uses Netscape's Messaging library to support their SMTP operations, to
> > change their product so that it does not generate bare LFs. I'm not
sure
> > what progress I'm going to make with that, but any advice would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > On the other hand, I am going to take a stab at convincing my ISP to
change
> > their Qmail implementation so that it will accept bare LFs and convert
them
> > into CRLFs. I have found reference to a solution in the list archives
(link
> > below), but unfortunately, being completely unfamiliar with Qmail's
> > internals, I am not going to be able to clearly communicate the solution
to
> > the engineers at my ISP based on this posting.
>
> Something like fixcrio may do the trick for them; however, it's not good
> practice to mangle customers' mail for them, as you can corrupt otherwise
> properly formatted messages.
>
> You have other options open which do not involve having the ISP change
> anything. You could set up a simple qmail relay on your internal network;
> have it pipe everything through fixcrio (with Dan's @fixme/fixup trick
> and tcpserver), and use smtproutes to send all mail from there to your
> ISP's smarthost. Then have your special (broken) software send its mail
> to that machine instead of directly to your ISP's smarthost.
>
> You could probably even do something simpler: use tcpserver, fixcrio,
> tcpclient, and some shell magic to run this mail through fixcrio on the
> fly, communicating directly with your ISP's smarthost from the broken
> application. I haven't looked at this enough to know quite how to set it
> up.
>
> > What I am searching for is something similar to a Knowledge Base or FAQ
> > article which would either assist me in understanding the changes which
> > should be made, or that I could simply point the engineers at my ISP to.
> > Without that, I am not sure that I will be able to effectively
communicate
> > the problem/solution.
>
> This link might help:
> http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html
>
> But it helps your ISP's case, not yours. It basically says "qmail does it
> right, fix your broken client. Here's some broken clients, and how to fix
> them...".
>
> Charles
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