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Re: [ietf-smtp] [Proposal] confusing parts of the mail system, was 250-MARKDOWN

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 16 January 2019 20:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] [Proposal] confusing parts of the mail system, was 250-MARKDOWN
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In article <305923b7-97ac-759d-1c36-09af230425bb@wizmail.org> you write:
>On 16/01/2019 18:50, John R Levine wrote:
>> I don't object to it, but since it doesn't solve any real problem, why
>> bother?
>
>Efficiency.  Not having to do dot-stuffing means that sendfile etc.
>can be used.

On my system, and I think most Unix systems, the line endings are changed
from \n to \r\n on the fly, so you still can't use sendfile.

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