Martin Vermeer ha scritto: > From the sendmail man page: > > " With no flags, sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-file > or a line consisting only of a single dot and sends a copy of the mes- > sage found there to all of the addresses listed. It determines the > network(s) to use based on the syntax and contents of the addresses." > > and > > " -i Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming messages. > This should be set if you are reading data from a file." > > RFC-822: read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html and search for > "period", and see section 4.5.2: Transparency. > > This stuff originates from SMTP, but should never get as far as a mail > client. Yet, apparently OE and TB have been "robustified" against any of > this getting through...
Bingo! I also found that it is called "hydden dot algorithm". However, this should be concerning MTAs (sendmail and alike) and not MUAs (mutt, thunderbird, ...). So, I don't understand why using two different email agents on the same machine and OS and sending the same email to the same recipient, I get a different behavior ... unless TB and OE are trying to do a work which isn't their responsibility, i.e., they themselves add that extra dot. A line starting with a dot in a text file is not usual, but a lyx file may well have lines starting with a dot, so the moral of this story is that it is not safe to send a lyx file in an email without zipping or tarring it. -- Enrico
