In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 2007-06-07, Per Hedeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quadibloc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I don't know why it isn't part of your reply, or why you didn't see >>>it. >> >> Probably brokenness in the news->mail gateway (Danny uses the mailing >> list). > >The gateway does what it was designed to do. > >In this case we've encountered something that was not accounted for in >the software design.
You can call it what you want, I'll call it a bug if it doesn't handle arbitrary plain text. But it's a common mistake, which can in most cases be blamed on the non-obvious and not particularly useful default behaviour of sendmail when receiving a message on *stdin*. >> You seem to frequently have a lone dot as the first line of >> your text in followups - nothing wrong with that, but maybe not much >> value either... > >A lone '.' on a line is the SMTP end of message marker. It has to be >escaped (by doubling it up) if it is to be ignored. And of course the requirement for this doubling is part of the SMTP spec - but per above I guess that the problem wasn't in SMTP, or else you have (had) a really badly broken SMTP client. (And just to be nit-picky, SMTP requires that any *leading* dot is doubled, not just a lone one.) >If my signature is attached to this article we are now escaping the lone >dot correctly. >. I can't personally verify it since I don't use the mailing list, but I knew you'd fix it.:-) Thanks! --Per Hedeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
