Mr. Smith,

This PMDF FAQ has been updated.

Thank you.

--Philip Whalen
Technical Writer/Web Administrator

-----Original Message-----
From: smith.jim@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:smith.jim@epamail.epa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:35 PM
To: info-pmdf@process.com
Subject: FAQ is a little misleading


I think the FAQ is a little off-base and gives the impression that
setting smtp_lf on tcp_local is "dangerous". For PMDF 5.2, this is
just making it behave like 5.1 did by default.

And this topic has been hot for a while now, not because of all the
agents out there that use either bare CR or bare LF, but because of
the quirkiness of recent Exchange server versions that just have an
extra CR in the EHLO reponse continuation lines.

Of course, PMDF 6.0 is a lot smarter in this regard.

http://www.support.process.com/pmdf/pmdfsmtpstatuslineerror.html

The problem with doing this, however, is that there are quite a
few SMTP servers that use CR-only terminators; so, if you
change this you may break compatibility with an incompliant group.

From Ned's message on 03 Apr 2001:

At the end of the day you have to make a choice between
supporting the agents that use bare CRs and LFs as line
terminators and supporting the ones that use them as regular
characters. In general you can't support both. Historically
there have been a lot more agents that emit bare LFs
(bare CRs are quite rare), but YMMV.

-- Jim Smith
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