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Re: sendmail 8.9.1: line breaks in headers; mailing to files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Thu Nov 5 17:30:44 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:20:30 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811051931.OAA29010@forum.swarthmore.edu>
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At 14:31 1998-11-05 -0500, Alex Vorobiev wrote:
>migrated 8.8.5 -> 8.9.1a
>
>Q1: new version inserts line breaks in headers like 'Received:', if
> the line is longer than a certain ## of characters. this is breaking
> my custom scripts that are used to the old format - all on one line
> header. is there a way to tell sendmail to stop inserting line breaks?
You might consider altering your scripts to allow for this RFC822-legal
behavior. Any header line that starts with whitespace is part of the
previous line.
Tony
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