Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!seismo.gps.caltech.edu!doug From: doug@seismo.gps.caltech.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: EOL for Internet mailers Message-ID: <1990Oct2.035725.5304@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 2 Oct 90 03:57:25 GMT Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Reply-To: doug@seismo.gps.caltech.edu () Organization: California Institute of Technology, CA Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: dix.gps.caltech.edu I am running sendmail 5.61+IDA enhancements. I notice that the default end_of_line terminator for mailers is "\n", or . My IPC Mailer definition (which I call ether) had the following definition: Mether, P=[IPC], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h However, I find that there is at least 1 mailer (mac.dartmouth.edu) that would not respond to SMTP lines that were terminated with simply a . When I changed the mailer definition to: Mether, P=[IPC], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h, E=\r\n which sets the eol to , I can successfully exchange mail with that system. So far, no other systems seem to be adversely affected. My question is: 1. Is there any "standard" (as defined by RFC or otherwise) as to what the "proper" eol is for an IPC mailer? 2. If "\n" is proper, will other mailers COMPLAIN about the extra ? Will addresses, for example, get misinterpreted if there is an extra "carriage return" on the end? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Neuhauser Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences doug@seismo.gps.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology 818-356-3993 MS 252-21, Pasadena, CA 91125