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Re: client requests ending \012

Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> Tue, 25 July 2000 16:13 UTC

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:57:51 +0100
From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
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	On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:43:46 +0100 (BST)
	Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk> said...

> 
> i've got a problem with javamail. I discovered that all apperances of
> the linefeed character "\n" were changed into an "\r\n" (Carriage
> Return+Linefeed) while sending the mail to the smtpserver. I'm working
> with S/MIME Routines and signed Mails so that all Mails had a bad digest
> (bad signature) because of the changed Mail Body. Is there an option to
> prevent this modification ? 

Which sounds like a good reason not to use S/MIME. PGP (with its '-t'
option) is especially designed to treat all line endings as CRLF,
and to disregard trailing whitespace (but not trailing blank lines,
infortunately).

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