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Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD.
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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> 3. use Content-Length (only SVR4's mail generates it).

This is not supported, because it is not clear if the byte count is
before or after '.' stuffing or before or after headers (ie: to what
data does the count apply).

THere has been some recent discuttion om comp.mail.headers about
killing it altogether...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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