On Wed, 24 May 2000, John Hall wrote:
> I'm running exim 3.13 under Redhat 6.1. I've just set exim up using the
> eximconfig script to forward all non-local messages to my ISP's smarthost.
> However, when exim connects to the ISP's smtp server it hangs and eventually
> times out.
> Running pcapture reveals that exim is terminating the message with .. on a
> single line rather than just a single '.'.
Well, it isn't doing this in general, because 3.13 has been out for ages
and nobody else has complained!
> Am I doing something obviously wrong to cause this? Performing exactly the
> same steps manually except with a single . works fine and the message is
> relayed on.
Is this just one particular message, or all of them? I would take a look
at the spool file to see if there are some funny characters, e.g. binary
zeros in there. They have been known to screw up servers.
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