fusion
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:51:25 -0700
>Mon Apr 28 2008 10:57:17 AM EDT from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re:Email Troubles > > > >> >> >> >>The emails are coming from "the outside world" so to speak.. they are >>intended for my boss basically lol >> >>What's happening is people are telling me they're getting repeat messages, >>because their email clients (in her case, Outlook) get to that specific >>broken message, error out, and subsequently go into "email loss >>prevention" mode i guess you could call it.. (IE, the server never receives >>the QUIT message to properly flush the DELE'd emails) > > >I have checked our implimentations and have found that our SMTP receive >works as per RFC821 with the option to escape lines with a single dot. Our >SMTP send, however, does not handle the situation. Why this would affect your >user with Outlook I do not know since Outlook uses either POP3 or IMAP to >receive the mails and SMTP. > >We have a fix in progress now for the SMTP send to match the RFC821. > >I'm now wondering if the fix is not sufficient. I need to check the POP and >IMAP protocol stuff too now. > > I guess the best I could hope for is that when i'm connected via POP3 or IMAP, emails that have lines with just the . on them be padded after being read from the database, but before being sent to the user. I could also very well add this to just my copy, if you were to point me to the right file and relative line number :) Thanks for the help btw, I appreciate it.