NUL characters in messages

[Chris Stromsoe]

On 6 Sep 2002, Hein Roehrig wrote:
> Chris Stromsoe <cbs at cts.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> > I need to allow NUL characters to appear in incoming messages.
>
> With due respect, could you explain why you need to break the SMTP and
> IMAP RFCs? If you want to prevent non-compliant messages from bouncing,
> rewriting the messages at the MTA level would be a better solution, IMO.

It's a political requirement.  sendmail passes embedded NUL characters,
Sun Internet Mail Server accepts them, and a particular version of Eudora
on the Mac seems to generate them under certain (unknown) circumstances.


-Chris