On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:36:29AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Bo Peng ha scritto: > >>I asked to a friend of mine to send me an email with lines starting with > >>a dot. Now I am using thunderbird to reply. Tell me what you see. > >>.this line starts with a single dot > >>..this line starts with two and only two dots > >>this line ends with a single dot. > >> > > > > > > I see correct things. > > > > OE/thunderbird seem to be innocent here. I have a striped down .lyx > > file on my server, If I run "mail myusername < file.lyx" , I will get > > a converted .lyx file (double dots) in my mailbox. There is obviously > > something wrong with the sever settings here. I have sent the sample > > to our IT guys and let them figure out the problem. I will report here > > the result. > > Nope. They are not innocent... If I edit with vim the email from OE, I > can see two and three dots where there should be one and two only, > respectively. However, if I look at the email with thunderbird, I see > what should be the correct thing, i.e., one and two dots. But I know > that in the mail they are two and three, respectively. > I am attaching here that mailbox for you to experiment with. I tar'ed > it to prevent thunderbird from playing tricks... > > -- > Enrico
From the sendmail man page:
" With no flags, sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-file
or a line consisting only of a single dot and sends a copy of the mes-
sage found there to all of the addresses listed. It determines the
network(s) to use based on the syntax and contents of the addresses."
and
" -i Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming messages.
This should be set if you are reading data from a file."
RFC-822: read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html and search for
"period", and see section 4.5.2: Transparency.
This stuff originates from SMTP, but should never get as far as a mail
client. Yet, apparently OE and TB have been "robustified" against any of
this getting through...
- Martin
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