On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:42:30PM +0000, Heimo Claasen wrote: > Howard: > > As far as I know, the terminating dot is never transmitted. > > It _is_, and that's part of the mail and POP3 RFCs. > The mail (receiving) agents rely and depend on it.
If you say so. When I telnet to port 25 and 'end with a "." on a line by itself', how do I know whether the dot is actually included in the message or simply signifies to the server that I am done entering the data? Granted, when I telnet to port 110 and "retr" the message, I can see a terminating dot, but I also see a dot after a "list" command. However, if I telnet to the shell and look at my mailbox i.e. /var/spool/mail/userid or somesuch, this file is in unix mailbox format, without the terminating dot. > [snip] > And what you get in the download stream is the header lines with a > "From:" line, _not_ a line starting with "From..." (sans colon); I usually see a "Return-Path:" (envelope) line rather than a "From:" (data) line at or near the beginning. > and > at least one, sometimes a long suite of "Received from..." lines. > That _added_ "From (no colon)" line as a mail item start marker is a > real nuisance. You may find it a nuisance, but the mail that ends up on my PC using several POP/IMAP clients is almost always in unix mailbox format. There is definitely no terminating dot. Howard E. -- <http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/> To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
