Re: Fwd: How to get rid of +OK nnnn octets strings [jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net]

[jmcoopr webmail bmi net]

In <20010712095728.I30305@helicon.office-logic.com>, on 07/12/2001 
   at 09:57 AM, Brian Stafford <brian@stafford.uklinux.net> said:

>On Thu, 12 July 09:36 Pawel Salek wrote:
>> 
>> On 2001-07-12 09:40 Brian Stafford wrote:
>> > On Thu, 12 July 05:34 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
>> > > Well, I'm using procmail 3.21 on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE as a mailbox
>> > > filter for Balsa 1.14_2.  Some of the time, things work great.  But,
>> > > particularly with IE 5.x, Netscape, mutt, and Pine-originated
>> > > messages, I get a "+OK nnnn octests" (where nnnn is some number)
>> > just
>> > 
>> > That is a POP 3 response line.
>> > 
>> > When the RETR command is issued the POP server responds with
>> > 
>> > +OK arbitrary text
>> > message in RFC 2822 format
>> > .
>> 
>> I suspect this may be a result of "\r\n"<->"\n" confusion on balsa's
>> side or something. I think it is not related to procmail, it just
>> filters the mail as it gets it.
>> 
>> /Pawel

>response lines from a POP server should *always* be terminated with the
>canonic CR-LF sequence.  This applies to message content also, RFC 2822
>(and 822 before it) state that only CR-LF is recognised as a line
>termination.

>Assuming there is no problem with the pop client, this should never be a
>problem.  Procmail was designed for use with sendmail and therefore
>expects \n terminations.  Something has to do the translation and this
>just isn't reliable because although RFC 2822 prohibits bare \r and \n in
>messages, 822 permitted them within a line and only allowed CR-LF as the
>termination.  Clearly \n -> \r\n and \r\n -> \r\n cannot be reversed
>correctly.

>Unfortunately many Unix mail programs and libraries recognise and/or use
>\n as a line termination (both Gmime and libmutt make this fundamental
>implementation error).  Sendmail propagated this error.  It is also why
>qmail makes such a big deal about line endings.

>Brian


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So, would my problems go away if I installed qmail in place of sendmail
(which is the FreeBSD default)?  I don't really feel comfortable doing
that, but I'll do what it takes . . .
 
jmc

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