Re: {bb} 1.9h Using attachments instead of inline]

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 21:18, Jason Englander wrote:
> > 
> > Not sure about you, but I'm pretty sure that's happening to me because of 
> > the change in use from \n to \r\n in 1.9f  See bb.c, bbnet.c, and bbpage.c
> > 
> > I haven't tried changing it back myself yet because I don't have the time 
> > to debug if it breaks anything else... (there had to be a reason it was 
> > changed in the first place)
> > 
> >    Jason
> 
> It's the "right" way to do it. Moreover, it is now the _only_ "right"
> way to do it. As detailed in RFC 2821 section 2.3.7:
> 
>   http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html
> 
> "Lines consist of zero or more data characters terminated by the
> sequence ASCII character "CR" (hex value 0D) followed immediately
> by ASCII character "LF" (hex value 0A). This termination sequence
> is denoted as <CRLF> in this document. Conforming implementations
> MUST NOT recognize or generate any other character or character
> sequence as a line terminator."
> 
> It would probably be helpful to know the OS and MTA software
> (with versions) of people who are seeing this problem.
 
I should perhaps have added that I would not have thought it
necessary to make this change, since BB normally talks to the
MUA rather than directly to the MTA. I would expect "mail" (or
mailx) to accept input using the default OS termination (LF)
and translate to whatever SMTP requires (CRLF).

Cheers, Phil.



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