Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:59:49 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Glenn Anderson <glenn@qualcomm.co.nz>
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: client requests ending \012
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Glenn Anderson wrote:

> >On how many hosts does your server run?
> 
> Judging by Dan's survey at 
> <http://cr.yp.to/surveys/smtpsoftware4.txt>, it is running on tens of 
> thousands of hosts.

Hmm. I wish I could now remember what client it was that caused me to 
change Exim. There certainly *was* a problem, and I remember being cross 
about it when I added the following to Exim's ChangeLog:

  67. It seems there are sites that send only LF instead of CRLF in their SMTP
  transactions, and that smail and sendmail can handle them. Relax Exim's
  constraints so as to run with the herd.

This was in February, 1997. Maybe the rogues have become extinct in the
last three years?

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.