On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 at 09:55:34 +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> 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
Yes, there were 153 of 'em.
Here's a test, since I've not seen this problem before.
I've bcced myself on several addresses to see how it copes.
. One dot here
.. Two dots
Ian
