At 09:13 25/01/02, Phillip Hazel wrote: >On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, John Holman wrote:
> > Actually, if it's true that there are no standards to be upheld, I also > > think it would be better for Exim (which claims to be a Sendmail clone > > insofar as the command line interface is concerned) to accept either CRLF > > or LF as a line terminator when mail is presented on standard input, if > > that is what Sendmail does. > >I never claimed it to be a clone! It tries to implement the majority of >commonly-used command line options in a compatible way. Oops, clone is a bit strong. Nonetheless Exim *is* described in the documentation as "a straight replacement for /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/sbin/sendmail when sending mail". >Cyrus appears to be becoming widely used. I should probably do something >better in Exim 4. I will investigate changing -dropcr to make it mean >"turn CRLF into LF" instead of what it currently does, and I will also >add a configure file option to force it always to be on. (And I'll see >if I can find any Sendmail documentation on this subject.) Thanks! I think Cyrus is the best freely-available IMAP server for large sites, and Exim has many advantages as an MTA, so anything to help them work together smoothly is to be encouraged. John >Philip > >-- >Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
