On 15 Sep 2000 12:08 Bret Hughes wrote:
>I am suprised that one dot on a line by itself does not hose your mail.
>I believe a period and a newline tells sendmail and fetchmail for that
>matter that the end is here. Actaully not sure about the sendmail part
>but I know it confused the hell out of fetchmail and I have to go in and
>manually delete the offending mail. and as a result it won't get read.
Sendmail is supposed to escape a single dot by adding a second one during
the SMTP transfer. The escape should be reversed by the receiving MTA. MUAs
submitting messages to sendmail from a file or buffer should use -oi so that
sendmail will know that a single dot should not be contstrued as end-of-message.
If the mail is submitted via SMTP, the escape mechanism applies.
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