Dica wrote:


No. SMTP protocol specifieds a single dot on a its own on a line as the end
of message.



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Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Brian Wakem of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

Although if the user actually types that, the email client is supposed to
convert it to a double dot, which will then get passed through as a
single.

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Phorm PHP Form Processor
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i just got an email from a client about her ezine being truncated on the
last few lines. i built this ezine publishing tool for them a couple of
years ago and this is the first problem we've had with it. i looked at the
function which seemed fine. then i looked at the content. the only thing
that caught my eye is that on the last line before the ezine becomes
truncated, she writes:

For more information, please see http://www.whatever.com
..

if i changed that to:
For more information, please see http://www.whatever.com.

then everything is fine. i've fixed this in my ezine by replacing \n + .
with just .

odd one, eh?

"Brian Wakem" <no@email.com> wrote in message
news:3sk429FoourqU1@individual.net...
ah. well, that's not nearly as mysterious, is it?

Alan Little wrote:

Yes, but the actual behaviour in the wild seems to be a but more difficult.
Everytime a mail is sent via SMTP (usually multiple time, until it reaches
its recipent), dots must be 'doubled' or 'undoubled'. There seem to be
servers out there that do not implement this correctly. For a
quoted-printable encoded HTML newsletter I ended up with dots sometimes
doubled and sometimes omitted, when the mail reached the recipent (the mail
has <img>s embedded and when the src attribute was wrapped by quopri just
before the dot in 'image.gif', I had 404 entries for 'imagegif' and
'image..gif' in my server log). I solved this by hacking the quopri
function to always quote dots at the start of lines as '=XX'.


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Benjamin Niemann
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Benjamin Niemann wrote:

Sorry, I thought I was on comp.lang.python... So hacking the 'quopri
function' does only apply to the python email package.

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Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Benjamin Niemann of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

Hm. The dot at the beginning of the line should only be doubled or un-
doubled if there is nothing but dots on the line. A line with .gif on it
should be untouched either way. Of course, if programs (and programmers
always did what they were supposed to, things would be too easy.

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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

Hi Alan -

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:50:27 -0600, Alan Little
<alan@n-o-s-p-a-m-phorm.com> wrote:

It doesn't matter what else is on the line, if the first character is
period it is to be doubled. See RFC 2821 4.5.2.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

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Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Ken
of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

You're right. I should have double-checked, but thought I'd trust my
memory. I should know better

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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

Hi Alan -

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:34:31 -0600, Alan Little
<alan@n-o-s-p-a-m-phorm.com> wrote:

I wouldn't know except that I recently wrote a small email client for
an IBM iSeries system to read email from a file and relay it to a
smart host with SMTP, so I had to research that issue.

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Ken
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