14 Mar
2003
14 Mar
'03
20:35
On Friday 14 March 2003 20:28, Tom Emerson wrote:
I've often wondered about the trailing "space" -- how can you tell whether or not it's there without resorting to a hex dump of the message?
"You" may not be able to tell, but that's not the purpose. It's intended for machine reading.
However, what happens of some transport "somewhere" in the chain of sending the message decides to strip trailing spaces on lines?
I don't have the standard in front of me, but I'd be prepared to bet that that should be considered a bug. MTAs can't at will re-edit email messages.