On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:19:30AM +0100, Ian Phillipps wrote:
> 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
>
A dot is escaped at the beginning of the line because some MTAs, such as
sendmail, use a dot on a line by itself to terminate a message. Much like
'From ' at the beginning of a line is escaped with >. Unfortunately, some
MTAs don't unescape these when they receive messages. :/
Ronald
