This issue is solved and cvs contains already the changes.
In
src/java/org/apache/james/pop3server/POP3Handler.java
and
src/java/org/apache/james/util/ExtraDotOutputStream.java

Bye,

Stephan


Kevin Kovach wrote:

> Has this been addressed yet? Is this a JAMES problem? I had this 
> happen again and have switched back to an older version of JAMES. I'd 
> like to be able to use the latest version of JAMES but don't want to 
> have to remove email by hand each time this happens. Thanks.
>
> - Kevin
>
> Stephan Schiessling wrote:
>
>>
>> Now I also think, that there is a bug in James pop3 server  :-(
>>
>> I compared James behaviour with that of sendmail and another pop3 
>> server.
>> James and Sendmail add an extra dot at beginning of a text line, if 
>> the text line starts with a dot.
>> (Internally both do not store the extra dot.)
>> James pop3 server does not add an extra dot, but the other pop3 server
>> does add an extra dot !!!!!!!
>>
>> I cannot find a hint about this in pop3 rfc 1939 ???
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>> Jeff Keyser wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, I don't believe this is entirely true.  I believe that the 
>>> sender
>>> of a message should turn a line with a single dot into a line with 
>>> two dots
>>> (or some other transformation to prevent a single dot line), and the
>>> receiver should reverse this to get the dot back.  It's been a long 
>>> time
>>> since I've looked at the SMTP/POP3 protocols, so please forgive me 
>>> if I got
>>> the exact method wrong.
>>>
>>> In any case, this may still be a James bug.  If the real message 
>>> contains a
>>> single line with a dot in its body, and James doesn't transform it 
>>> while
>>> handing it off to a POP3 client, this could cause the problem that 
>>> Stephan
>>> saw.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:04 AM
>>>> To: James Users List
>>>> Subject: RE: Odd behavior
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> this is dot stuffing, its the way that MTA's detect the end
>>>> of a message
>>>> body, single dot on a line by itself.
>>>> If you want to send a dot to a friend (!) you should encode
>>>> your mails using
>>>> UUENCODE Base64 MIME or something like that.
>>>> This is a fact of life.
>>>>
>>>> d.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Stephan Schiessling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:55 AM
>>>>> To: James Users List
>>>>> Subject: Re: Odd behavior
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I can reproduce this error:
>>>>>
>>>>> If I send an email with a message body, which contains a
>>>>>
>>>> single dot in a
>>>>
>>>>> line,
>>>>> Mozilla 0.9.8 cannot read this message and shows the error message,
>>>>> that it cannot write into a mailbox. I think Mozilla
>>>>>
>>>> thinks, that the
>>>>
>>>>> message is
>>>>> ended here .....
>>>>> James has no problem to handle this email, so it is not
>>>>>
>>>> James's fault :-)
>>>>
>>>>> I will add this bug in bugzilla.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bye,
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Danny Angus wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh My!
>>>>>> sorry guys.. that bit of help backfired then.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> d.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Stephan Schiessling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:11 AM
>>>>>>> To: James Users List
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Odd behavior
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got the same problem.
>>>>>>> I think email of Danny Angus with subject: Re: telnet login
>>>>>>> is the source of the problem.
>>>>>>> In this email there are some SMTP commands. I think Mozilla has a
>>>>>>> problem with it.
>>>>>>> I removed this email by hand and restarted james. Then Mozilla
>>>>>>> worked again.
>>>>>>> I could not reproduce this error, so I do not know ....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bye,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stephan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kevin Kovach wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've installed the newest release of James and I'm
>>>>>>>>
>>>> getting some odd
>>>>
>>>>>>>> behavior. I've tried reading mail using the latest
>>>>>>>>
>>>> version of Mozilla
>>>>
>>>>>>>> (0.9.8) on both Windows and Linux and have had the same
>>>>>>>>
>>>> problem. The
>>>>
>>>>>>>> mail client seems tolog in and start to download the
>>>>>>>>
>>>> mial/headers,
>>>>
>>>>>>>> then says that it's not able to write to the local file
>>>>>>>>
>>>> system. I get
>>>>
>>>>>>>> a dialog box asking to check either disk space or
>>>>>>>>
>>>> permission. I have
>>>>
>>>>>>>> both, I assure you. Has anyone else experienced this? I
>>>>>>>>
>>>> started up
>>>>
>>>>>>>> James 1.2.1 and am able to recieve mail. This tells me I hav both
>>>>>>>> space and permission on the disk. Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Kevin
>>>>>>>>
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