On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lindell Jorgen wrote:

>
> OK, I found it.
>  RFC821 / 4.5.2.  TRANSPARENCY
>
> Where it says that its the sending-SMPT should double periods in =
> beginning
> of lines and
> recieving-SMTP should remove them again.
>
> Is this really happening in XMail SMTP? If I send a mail with Outlook
> Express to XMail
> and then look at the mailbox file, the periods are doubled, and so they =
> are
> if I filter the spool file, and that is creating some problems for me =
> since
> I load it into a JMail message that think that is already done.
>
> Shouldn't Xmail remove the doubles in the process of recieving the =
> file,
> before spooling?
>
> Davide, aren't you compliant to rfc821? :-)

MTAs know nothing about double dots, it's all MUA responsibility. First of
all only lines _with_a_single_dot_ should be escaped. So this :

..com

has not to be escaped. Then, when the recipient's MUA see a line
containing .. it should remove one of them.



- Davide


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