[issue14983] email.generator should always add newlines after closing boundaries

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

Well, there are two problems here, I think (it's been a while since I looked at this): we should indeed be adding a crlf between mime boundary lines.  But also the clients should technically be handling it not being there, as well as the case of extra whitespace being added between the end of the delimiter and the following crlf (which I'm guessing they don't, since the logical way to handle that would be to ignore anything after the end of the delimiter string, in which case this problem wouldn't arise).

Specifically:

   The boundary may be followed by zero or more characters of linear
   whitespace. It is then terminated by either another CRLF...

and:

   NOTE TO IMPLEMENTORS:  Boundary string comparisons must compare the
   boundary value with the beginning of each candidate line.  An exact
   match of the entire candidate line is not required; it is sufficient
   that the boundary appear in its entirety following the CRLF.

So it seems to me that the PGP spec is not RFC conformant...but if we were following the RFC it wouldn't be an issue.

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