On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 11:46:56 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hello:
> I have recently made the observation that an email message won't fly
> if I have an asterisk at the beginning of a line in the text body of
> an email message prepared for sending with Arachne's email client.
> I will get the "Mail Upload Aborted" error page, or Arachne will
> "hang" until I click on "cancel". I have conducted some tests and
> I have found that this result is reproducible on two different
> machines running Arachne.
> I have not yet conducted any tests to see if placing an asterisk at
> the beginning of a line in the text body of an email message to be
> sent by an alternative email client would cause similar problems.
> I don't know if I have observed a bug in Arachne's email client.
> Perhaps the placing of an asterisk at the beginning of a line in the
> text body of an email message causes the message to be non-compliant
> with the RFC. Maybe it is wrong to start a line beginning with an
> asterisk when using any other email client as well.
> Can anyone enlighten us on this?
> Sam Heywood
*Seems to be working fine here ;-)
^____ asterisk as first caracter _
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