On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 06:53:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does a leading '.' have a special meaning in some mailers??
> Does anyone else have '..' at the front of lines 7 and 8?
It should be escaped by the sender-SMTP, the receiver-SMTP should strip it
when passing it on....
> The original post should have no '..' at all, so you
> might try to correct the problem with something like:
> perl -pe 's/\.\././g' /tmp/japh >/tmp/japh2
I would suspect this would only happen at the beginning of the line (if it
is in fact the SMTP dot-escaping that's doing it, in which case:
perl -pe 's/^\.\././g' /tmp/japh > /tmp/japh2
MBM
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Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/
