On Mon, 17 May 1999, Hans-Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
> Some MTAs are pretty braindead: If you message contains a
> \0-character at the end, they won't recognize the trailing
> "." of the DATA-section.
That's it!
The messages in question all end with
\0\n
Some with a fairly long string of \0 s
> You might either ask the other side to change there MTA
Believe me, I have been trying.
> or set up a transport filter that drops \0-characters (they are
> illegal, anyways).
Any advice on how to do that efficiently. I really don't want to run a
perl processes on every message.
I will complain to the upstream sites if nulls are illegal in these.
Thank you.
-j
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