On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 at 09:06:18 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 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:
> > > > 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
> 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. :/
I've identified the culprit: the tesco.net mail relay is misbehaving on
this front. Interesting this is the first time I've noticed. But I don't
get my personal email through this mailbox - it's just for mailing
lists. Anyhow, the FWP relay is not guilty.
Ian
