Hi all,
I'm using getmail to fetch mails from our provider.
I use the "MDA_external" option in order to use /usr/sbin/sendmail as
delivery agent, but I have problem with email with a single "." (dot) in
a line.
For example sendmail doesn't tranfer this text (it truncate the mail at
the ".")
"""
test
.
"""
An email has the following line:
"""
delle oscillazioni sulla superhat è perché c’era poco gas.
"""
Getmail fetch two line from the provider (it split a single long line
into two ones):
"""
delle oscillazioni sulla superhat =C3=A8 perch=C3=A9 c=E2=80=99era poco gas=
.
"""
and so, passing this text to sendmail, all the other part of the mail
(with attachments!) is deleted..
As far as I know the single dot is used by smtp/pop protocol to
terminate the message, so It should -I think- transparently replace a
single dot with a double dot during the
Another example: the file mail.txt contains the following test:
"""
From: "myaddress" <myadr...@test.it>
To: myem...@atwork.com
Subject:
first row.
.
second rows
.
"""
If I use "cat mail.txt |sendmail -t " I get only the first row.
I how can I send a single dot line with sendmail?
Thanks
Alessandro
PS: I'm using sendmail of postfix 2.5.5 package
