davew
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:57:14 -0700
> >> >> >>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. > > Let us go through this first. I believe it is something we should handle and if that proves to be the case we will fix it quickly, we just need to make sure we do it in the right place so we catch all situations.