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From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: EOL for Internet mailers
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Date: 2 Oct 90 14:28:31 GMT
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The standard (RFC 821, available via FTP from nic.ddn.mil or via mail
from service@nic.ddn.mil) says that the correct end-of-line indication
is carriage-return followed by line-feed (\r\n in C-ese).  Your SMTP
user agent hadn't been following the rules, and many other hosts forgave
you, but not all of them.  I predict that no other mailers will complain
about your now-correct use of the \r\n sequence.

		Craig