It appears that Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop <cy...@improvmx.com> said:
>@John Levine <jo...@taugh.com>, I'm not sure which line you are mentioning,
>the one I used from the RFC ("... If the first character is a period and
>there are other characters on the line, the first character is deleted.")
>does mention "deleted", not "inserted".
>From where did you get your quote?It's literally the paragraph in the RFC before the one you quoted. Go back and read RFC 5321 section 4.5.2. Not part of that section, *all* of it. R's, John >> >appear to be the only one (as my user is generating a document that also >> >doesn't seems to follow it). >> > >> >I'm more thinking about a different interpretation on the RFC that leads >> to various behavior between aiosmtpd and (some) others. >> >> You might want to reread the paragraph before the one you quoted in your >> last message: >> >> o Before sending a line of mail text, the SMTP client checks the >> first character of the line. If it is a period, one additional >> period is inserted at the beginning of the line. >> >> It's quite clear, and if your software isn't adding a second dot in front >> of the line that starts with a dot, it's wrong. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
