Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:49:47 -0500 |
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:20:09 EST, William Allen Simpson said:
> And your trailer boilerplate badly breaks the system, because it's > missing the SMTP email standard "--" line in front of it.
Ahem.
It's not an 'SMTP standard' - in fact, SMTP doesn't even care diddly about the user-visible *headers* in the mail, much less what the convention for a signature block is. If you get EHLO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, '.', and QUIT, that's 95% of SMTP right there. And none of it where normal users can even see it (though the MAIL FROM can show up as Return-Path: sometimes).
The '-- ' *convention* isn't even at the next layer up, MIME. If anything, it's out at the liveware level (though some MUAs provide code to make it a bit easier to deal with...)
(Feel free to cite RFC chapter-and-verse if you disagree, and note that 'Informational' RFCs are never standards. ;)
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