[Imap-uw] CRLF

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:35:53AM -0700, Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

>> my MDA uses mail_append() with a mail_string. the string contents are

>> not pre-normalized to CRLF upon the call.

>

> Do you really mean an MDA (Message Delivery Agent, called by an

> incoming SMTP server)?

>

yes


> I don't know why you think that this results in the IMAP server being 

> non-compliant with the spec;

>

hmm, i think i interpolated that from the formats.txt and other files.
also, with the unix driver (LF in the mailboxes), imapd still delivers nicely
CRLF-terminated lines.


> If you want to store an RFC 5322-compliant message in mix (and IMAP!)

> you must present an RFC 5322-compliant message in the mail_string

> presented to mail_append().

>

ok, that's the statement i needed to hear. thanks.

regards