From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 05:52:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA09372 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA09365 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:52:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gavin@forzagroup.com) Received: from mailgate.forzagroup.com ([194.159.236.130]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1001979; 17 Oct 97 13:46 BST Received: from pc131.forzagroup.com (pc131.forzagroup.com [194.159.236.131]) by mailgate.forzagroup.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA17368 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:50:04 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971017134917.0068d308@194.159.236.130> X-Sender: gavin@194.159.236.130 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:49:17 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Gavin Dandridge Subject: Re: Help with sendmail - please! In-Reply-To: <199710171131.GAA29364@d2si.com> References: <3.0.1.32.19971017113543.0068a478@194.159.236.130> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:31 17/10/97 -0500, you wrote: >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. > >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. > - Alec Kloss Alas there is no option inside SQL Anywhere to automatically uuencode messages. :( So that option is out. Though I do agree with your comments. That any product could still fail to be net-friendly seems quite bizzar! I have tried using Netscape Messageing Server on Windows NT (Sorry had to try) and SQL Anywhere worked fine on that! The messages arrived intact. This leads me to belive that sendmail is doing something unique here. The question is what. I have no desire to use Windows NT on my network and would really like FreeBSD boxes for my mail servers! I'm not sure I'm up to hacking th sendmail source code though! :( Any further ideas? Regards, Gavin Dandridge.