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Re: definition of a line in SMTP



> 2.  Today unix vendors are still distributing sendmail configuration
>     files with two SMTP mailers.  One, intended for local domain usage,
>     still uses \n as a line termination.  It will take a long time to
>     get this out of the system.

Neil,

What people do locally have never been attempted governed by Internet
standards.  You can use the letter `Z' as a line terminator locally if
you use CRLF on the Internet.

Not a problem.  (Please don't tell me that "locally" is fuzzy.)

[Erik]