My previous message was cut off half way through, due to a line containing
a single dot, so here it is again in full.
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jacob Stevens wrote:
> When using exim to send mail from the knews newsreader, I noticed a
> problem: a couple of blank lines were being added between each line of
> text. I had a look at what knews was sending to exim, and this looked
> fine:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
> Organization: University of Cambridge, England
> References: <5hordg$91@???>
> From: jts20@??? (Jacob Stevens)
> Subject: Re: test
> Newsgroups: ucam.test
> To: jts20@??? (Jacob Stevens)
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Reply to test.
>
> In article <5hordg$91@???>,
> jts20@??? (Jacob Stevens) writes:
> > test.
>
> .
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>
> I then tried invoking exim manually (with the -t option, which is what
> knews uses) and pasted the above text into the session: the message was
> sent correctly, with no blank lines. Piping exactly the same text into
> exim (cat foo | exim -t) caused the problem to occur, however.
>
> Could this be a bug in exim, or am I just doing something stupid? I am
> running it under Linux, by the way.
>
> Jacob
>
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