Yeah, it's most likely an escape character. Robo
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Bevan Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Probably because when the data is being sent via SMTP, a single dot and > CRLF on a line indicates the end of the message data - so perhaps it's > being added by a mail server in order to prevent end of data being > specified? > > Regards, > > Bevan > > > > On 13/09/2014 4:18 p.m., John Bird wrote: > > I have a program that sends data via an email attachment, the file > data is encoded into ascii text (ie all characters are ASCII and the whole > range can be used) and contains CRLF between the lines of data. > > Sending and receiving is done via standard email programs, so the > encoding/decoding is not done by me. > > When the file is received and the attachment saved, I have noticed an > oddity – if a line in the sent data occasionally happens to start with a > full-stop “.” (ie immediately after the CRLF) then at the other end there > appears two full-stops instead of one. Otherwise the attachment arrives > the same as sent. > > Anyone have ideas why this happens and how to get around this? eg I am > wondering if I should replace the CRLF characters with something else so > the encoding does not treat it as text. > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe >
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