On 18 Sep 2000 07:32 Nitebirdz wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I am suprised that one dot on a line by itself does not hose your
mail.
>> > I believe a period and a newline tells sendmail and fetchmail for that
>> > matter that the end is here. Actaully not sure about the sendmail
part
>> > but I know it confused the hell out of fetchmail and I have to go in
and
>> > manually delete the offending mail. and as a result it won't get read.
>> >
>> > Bret
>> >
>> Exactly my point. This is one RFC(821) that needs amending.
>>
>
>Not really. The Internet community has to agree on some sort of string
>terminator to signal "end of message". There has to be some sort of
>standard. No matter what we choose there will always be someone who
>accidentally types it at the prompt and hoses a message.
The standard allows for messages that include the "end of message" string. I
tested this myself by sending an identical message to myself through various
routes. The only one that did not work was the one sent through this list.
This is an implementation bug in either postfix (doubtful) or the listserver
software.
Tony
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