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(I'm cross-posting this to bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l from the original
comp.mail.misc, in the hope that both sides can broaden their outlook :-)

Russell Schulz (russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
: kgg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Kees Goossens) writes:

: > In general yes, but there are some screwy mailers around that insert a
: > single space in the blank line.  I noticed this on a few occasions in my

: what kind of mail server would do this?  wouldn't that line break
: section 3.1 of RFC 822?  how could such software live?

Alas, IBM mainframe file systems do not tolerate empty lines, thus IBM
mainframe mailers are irreparably broken.  IBM waffles on this, sometimes
stripping trailing blanks to "fix" the empty line (which breaks uudecode),
sometimes leaving the single blank in the message line, which breaks
RFC 822 compliant readers, but never fixing the underlying defect in
the file system.

-- gil