On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:54:14 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To troubleshoot this, I first sent asterisk-containing
> messages from various clients. They all worked and were
> delivered with the asterisk as typed.
> Since I use Linux Arachne, there is no mail upload
> function as in DOS, so I've modified sendmail.ah to
> call a cgi-script which calls on the mail function
> already available on any Linux distribution. It's a
> bad hack still in its infancy, so I haven't made it
> available to the list, however, using an asterisk at
> the beginning of a line did have rather unpredictable
> results.
> The e-mail as typed:
> -----
> don't start with an asterisk
> * start with an asterisk
> -----
> The e-mail as received:
> -----
> don't start with an asterisk
> <long list of every file in my cgi-bin directory>
> start with an asterisk
> -----
> I haven't yet checked whether an asterisk in the
> middle of the line, at the end of the line, or
> multiple asterisks has similar effect, or even perhaps
> an attempt to escape the asterisk with \*
There is no problem with the DOS Arachne email client
when sending an email message having an asterisk in the
middle of a line or at the end of a line. If an asterisk
appears as the first character at the beginning of a line,
then the message won't fly. "Mail Upload Aborted" error.
This happens to me on two different machines running
Arachne.
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
