On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Richard Welty wrote:
> > For some reason, my example ended at my period.
>
> yes, because the interaction between your MUA and your MTA needs to be
> tweaked. your MUA is sending the period by itself instead of doubling it,
Yes. I assumed pine would escape the period, like rfc 2821 section 4.5.2
about transparency suggests. But now I see that even the suggested pine
config for using sendmail uses "-oi" (which implies that pine won't add
the extra period).
> and your MTA is assuming that if you wanted to send a period by itself,
My MTA (my "mailout") didn't escape it either. I have now fixed this (so
if -i or -oi switch is used then escape the dot).
> you'd have doubled it. tweaking one or the other will fix the situation.
> which approach is easiest varies from setup to setup.
The fix was easy. Realizing that my .pinerc had multiple sendmail-path
settings defined was the hard part :) I wonder how that happened ...
Anyways, this is a little off-topic, since this particular issue is
pine -> mailout -> qmail
Jeremy C. Reed
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