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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: EOL for Internet mailers
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.131844.7588@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 90 13:18:44 GMT
References: <1990Oct2.035725.5304@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1990Oct2.035725.5304@nntp-server.caltech.edu> doug@seismo.gps.caltech.edu () writes:
>
>I am running sendmail 5.61+IDA enhancements.  I notice that the default
>end_of_line terminator for mailers is "\n", or <newline>.
>
>My IPC Mailer definition (which I call ether) had the following definition:
>
>Mether,	P=[IPC], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h
>
 All of the IDA versions of sendmail.cf I have seen have
     E=\r\n
on the internet smtp mailers.  I believe this is part of the defined SMTP
protocol.  Also all IDA version I have seen call these mailers TCP, or
some variation such as TCP-A.

 Somehow you picked up an non-standard sendmail.cf.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940