From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 11:38:52 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <3EC9C5AC.50906@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>
>
>>The base SMTP method of appending a CRLF is equivalent to adding a
>>zero-length epilogue or extending the epilogue by two octets, and is
>>mostly harmless.
>
>
> Which is just another way of saying that, for the purposes of RFC 2821,
> email messages MUST end in CRLF. Or, alterantively, there is no way to
> transport a message without that CRLF through SMTP.
No, SMTP provides for negotiation of extensions, and the BDAT extension
command can transport a message that does not end in CRLF via (extended)
SMTP,