On 1 Oct 2002 at 8:42, Lindell Jorgen wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange problem wehre periods (.) gets atted to the message =
> body.

It's not a bug, it's a feature ! SMTP Messages end in the sequence 
<CRLF>.<CRLF> but if the message composed by the user contains a line 
homing only a single period (.) the recieving host would think the 
message ends and discard the remaining part.

So the sending host must add a period character to every message line 
starting with a period to 'escape' this EOT sequence. (compare RFC 
821 Part 4.5.2)

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This may seem a bit weird, but that's okay, because it is weird.

found on line 89 of 'perldoc perl'

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