From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 11:29:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8481B16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF00043D2D for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from sclpc01.scls.lib.wi.us (sclpc01.scls.lib.wi.us [172.26.2.225]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i54ISpFS068781 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040604071703.03dc6548@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> X-Sender: nalists@mail.scls.lib.wi.us X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:26:02 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Greg Barniskis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: MIME-Tools, sendmail or Eudora? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:29:38 -0000 Please feel free to send me to another forum (Eudora, MIME-Tools or sendmail) as appropriate. I just thought I would start here for clues, (and in the hope of finding a server-side magic bullet, since I cannot really control the senders or receivers of the messages in question). We're using FreeBSD 4.9 on our mail server, with a sendmail configuration not much modified from the default except for domain name, acceptable relays, and masquerading. Whenever we get a message that has been handled with "X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404)", which we see most frequently on Bugtraq, we have a problem reading it in Eudora. On the server side, peering into the mailbox file in /var/mail shows that the message is "intact", but that the message body's lines are using a Windows-like line break (CRLF), as opposed to "normal" messages that are using only a line feed. Ironically, my Windows-based email client (Eudora) will not render the Windows-like message bodies properly. I see http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-tools/lib/MIME/Tools/traps.pod, but it's not clear (to me) where in the sender-server-receiver chain this discrepancy between CRLF and LF should be addressed. Is the problem here that: (a) the sender is not formatting the message correctly (b) my server is not rewriting the message correctly (c) the Windows client is not rendering the message correctly Is there anything I can do to my FreeBSD/sendmail server configuration to make this a non-issue? -------------------------------------- Greg Barniskis Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System (SCLS)