Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message<[email protected]>,
Uri Guttman<[email protected]>wrote:
i think a blank line with . will end input to smtp servers. try that too
in the line after the from field.
DING DING DING!!!
Give that man a cupie doll, because he's the winner of today's
perplexing puzzle test!
In short, yes, when I first read the above sentence, I said to myself
"No way! I know that when input is coming in ``over the wire'' to a
normal SMTP server *and* when it is already in ``DATA'' (input message
collection) SMTP protocol mode, *then* a period alone on a line ends
input, *however* in this case Postfix is reading the message from STDIN,
and so there is really no need for that period-alone-on-a-line bit of
SMTP protocol to apply in this case, because EOF in this case can be
signalled by... well... an actual EOF, of course!"
stdin (and stdout) are part of a stream protocol and as such are not
about files and do not signal End-Of-File which is part of why emails
use the single period to signal the end of the message.
John
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