On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:21:51 +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:02:21PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
[...] > From the SMTP definition (RFC-822): > > "1. Before sending a line of mail text the sender-SMTP checks > the first character of the line. If it is a period, one > additional period is inserted at the beginning of the line." > > The above first line, ".one dot", couldn't possibly have been produced > legally by a compliant Sender-SMTP. The second line would be produced by > one sending ".two dots". You are right, but I was experimenting (btw it is RFC-821). [...] >> (I also tried with a line >> containing only a dot and a blank immediately following it, and >> sendmail does not touched it). > > Strange. According to the same doc: > > "2. When a line of mail text is received by the receiver-SMTP > it checks the line. If the line is composed of a single > period it is the end of mail. If the first character is a > period and there are other characters on the line, the first > character is deleted." > > So this would be non-conformant behaviour. Are you sure? Yes, I am sure. I tried it several times. This is also strange to me for the reason below. [...] > Yes, according to rfc1939 POP3 transmission handles (escapes/unescapes) > the "termination octet" (dot) in the same way as rfc822. > >> IMHO this is not a lyx problem and I should say that it seems I judged >> wrongly both TB and OE, which seem to do the "right thing". >> Indeed, when I reported that TB was showing me a different thing from >> what I was seeing looking at an email with vim, I was not aware of the >> fact that TB was showing the html part of the email, which indeed was >> correct! > > So, did you diagnose the original problem as due to XCmail only? At least in my case I am convinced of this. I also tried to send with XCmail a mail to the same mailhost with the following body (I am using "|" to start a line as I am replying with XCmail ;-) |.one dot |..two dots |. |end and received the following: |one dot |.two dots i.e., I lost everything after the "." on a line by itself and the dot on the first line was missing. I don't know why when I directly talk with sendmail this does not happen. Alas, to my knowledge, XCmail is the only mailer with a GUI which lets me open a mailbox in whatever place on disk or network it is located. I hope that someday someone writes a GUI for mutt ;-) -- Enrico
