note 86392 deleted from function.mail by danbrown

Note Submitter: devnull at div dot org ---- I just had a little run-in with the postfix developers over at postfix-users about this issue. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/postfix-users/message/244799 Quote:Wietse Venema: >> Specifically, Postfix accepts local submissions in UNIX format >> (LF) or MSDOS format (CRLF) format BUT YOU MIST NOT MIX FORMATS. > > So how does postfix determine what format you are using? > Is there a way to explicitly tell it what to expect? > Postfix looks at the first input line. There currently is no way to override this, so your best bet is to use the same line terminator consistently (having a first line with CRLF might work "best" for hybrid mail, but that behavior is not promised). The current behavior originates from the time when binary transparency was considered a good thing. -- There seemed to me to be a marked hostility towards the idea of trying to be helpful about this, but on the other hand I got the impression they might not be hostile if someone offered a patch for a SENDMAIL_EOF_COMPAT_MODE or similar. Personally I am not much good at C, but the challenge is hereby issued :)