Hi Folks,
I recall there having been a discussion on the Arachne list a long
time ago about email messages being truncated by the mail servers
whenever they encounter a period (".") on a line by itself. The
dicussion came to a close when someone posted a quotation from an
eminently authoritative source stating that standardized
specifications for internet mail servers stipulate that this is
supposed to happen when a period is encountered on a line by itself.
The period on a line by itself is supposed to be interpreted as an
"end of file mark".
In the case of my own ISP, the messages are truncated when the server
finds a period being the first character of a line of text, even though
many other characters follow on the same line. This is a problem for
me sometimes when I try to send UUENCODE attachments. UUENCODE.EXE
will sometimes encode the file so that sometimes a line of text might
begin with a period; however, the period is not a line by its own
lonesome self.
Do you think this is normal that the messages are truncated in this case?
Or, do you think there might be a problem with my ISP's mail server?
I'm sending an identical message to the Arachne list. Don't know how
to CC with the mail system used to send this message.
Hope there is someone on these lists who truly understands the
consternations associated with periods.
Sam Heywood
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