On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:50:44PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[... truncated message quote ...]
| Funny. I ended the last sentence with a dot on the next line, plus an extra
| newline before my signature. Ok, I remember dot newline newline is an end of
| message, but should my mailer have encoded this, or is this a list bug? When I
| forward the message to myself I get the whole thing...
Sounds like a mail system bug (or a mailer bug if your mailer dispatches
directly with SMTP).
Dot on its own is only end of message in two contexts I know of:
- in some non-editor message composition situations
- in SMTP message bodies
(Well, also in NNTP etc where similar things apply).
Ignoring the first (which I presume doesn't obtain - after all you got to
continue making the message), it means your SMTP software didn't escape
the dot (if, indeed, it _was_ the dot which truncated things). It is
the responsibility of whatever is speaking SMTP to escape the dot in
the fashion described in the RFC.
So, if your mail dispatches email with SMTP to some server, then maybe your
mailer is at fault. If not, the mail system transport may be at fault.
If you can forward the message to yourself (a real forward - a resend, not
just a fresh message with the old one embedded in it) via your own mail
system then the bug is probably outside it - perhaps in an intervening
mail relay (either on the way out to the list or on the way back from
the list to you) or in the list software.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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1. Felonious 2. Accidental 3. Justifiable 4. Praiseworthy
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Type 4 was expanded upon by Faulkner, who, writing the screenplay for Philip
Marlowe - Humphrey Bogart - commented thus: "Some murders could be listed in
the newspaper under Civic Improvements."
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