Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 06:31:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: gavin@forzagroup.com (Gavin Dandridge) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with sendmail - please! Message-ID: <199710171131.GAA29364@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971017113543.0068a478@194.159.236.130> from Gavin Dandridge at "Oct 17, 97 11:35:43 am"
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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.
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