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From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with sendmail - please!
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971017113543.0068a478@194.159.236.130> from Gavin Dandridge at "Oct 17, 97 11:35:43 am"
To: gavin@forzagroup.com (Gavin Dandridge)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 06:31:17 -0500 (CDT)
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Gavin Dandridge said:

> Has anyone had problems with sending long messages through sendmail. I'm
> using SQL Anywhere on my system and it generates email messages that are
> long strings of text.
> 
> Quite often these strings can be 16kb long and will not contain and CR's or
> LF's. However after the message has been processed by sendmail there is a
> CR-LF-LF every 1024th character.
> 
> This causes SQL Anywhere to think the message is corrupted.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why sendmail might place these CR-LF-LF's into
> the message and how it could be stopped?
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Gavin Dandridge. <gavin@forzagroup.com>

If I thought Oracle cared, I'd suggest complaining to them.  My
undeerstanding is that you can't really count on internet mail
messages with long lines making it---that's why people came up with
uuencode.  I'd get the message uuencodes and then sent to you.  Why
Oracle doesn't know enough to do this I don't know.  Even CC:Mail
uuencodes things.  I'd guess sendmail is doing this because of some
buffer internally.  You may look into /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/src
to see if you can find it, but if your mail ever gets sent to a system
without the patches you make, it'll get linebreaks inserted.