On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 18:26:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>The separator line must have only CRLF;
> ...
True. However, since CMS and VM spool abominate empty records,
the VM SMTP daemon strips trailing blanks, there by forgiving nonempty
blank lines and, in turn, breaking classic uudecode which re-pads with NULs.
> the data terminator must have only a period followed by CRLF.
>
I'll trust you on the standard, however the popular UNIX sendmail says:
man sendmail
...
-oi When reading a message from standard input, don't treat a line
with only
a . character as the end of input.
(the message body ends, then, with end-of-file.)
-- gil
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