Bo Peng wrote: >> IMO this is a bug in the mail programs Bo is using. > > This is a feature/bug of sendmail. Considering the dominance of this > program, I would not say it is only "Bo's mail program".
Sorry, I did not follow the thread too closely, but have now reread it. > I still do not get it. Who should be responsible for fixing this? Mail > client or server? The server (means the SMTP daemons that are involved in the transmission). This follows from the SMTP RFC that Martin cited. If sendmail does not do it - file a bug report (for the address, look here: http://www.sendmail.org/email-addresses.html) > I tried the very basic "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < a > lyx" file on a unix machine (sendmal is used) and the converted file > is in my /var/mail/username. Neither MS/OE nor Linux/Mutt convert the > dots back . > > If kde/kmail knows this problem and take the responsiblility to remove > the dots, I am wondering why OE/Mutt do not do it. Probably because it has side-effects: If you don't know whether you receive a message witrh correct dots or not, how can you determine whether "..CRLF" means "..CRLF" or ".CRLF"? I guess that they use some heuristics, but I believe that these cannot be 100% correct in all cases. > There is no easy way to fix the mail servers/clients, so a change in > lyx is easier. Afterall, there is a much higher chance in .lyx file to > have such dots than a pdf/ps/doc file. (period after citation is quite > common). True, but in this case the risk of introducing lyx2lyx bugs is too high. Georg
