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Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote in
<20031017093307.GK25076@cygbert.vinschen.de>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:33:07 +0200:
> I'm not familar with the mail-related RFCs. Is
> it allowed to send lines with DOS lineendings?
The RFCs for SMTP e-mail (RFC2821 and its predecesors) /require/ CR-LF
("\r\n" i.e. "DOS") line endings. (Probably because debugging using
dumb terminals or printers was easier that way in days of yore.)
Regards,
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Sam Edge
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