On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 21:01:27 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> 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 _
It is now working OK for me too. It worked OK in the case of
two test messages I sent to myself about 10 minutes ago. For a
while I was getting the "Mail Upload Aborted" page when attempting
to send a message having an asterisk as the first character in a
line of text in an email message. After removing the asterisk the
message would fly. Strange! Curiouser and curiouser!
Sam Heywood
P.S. Here is a line having an asterisk as first character:
* This line has an asterisk as first character.
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