On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:31:17PM +0100, Simon Williams wrote:
> > If a line starts with a dot, you prepend another, what*EVER* comes after
> > it. (something which the participants in the very recent thread appeared
> > to be unaware of)
> Odd. RFC2821 specifies that message data should end with
> "<CRLF>.<CRLF>", so any line beginning with a dot and containing
> another character other than the <CRLF> pair shouldn't be treated as
> signifying the end of message data. I haven't come across any, but
> are there any MTAs that do treat anything other than "<CRLF>.<CRLF>"
> as the end of a message?
I've never seen one, but the MTA will helpfully strip it off in delivery
if you don't do that, so it's best to stick to the rules.
MBM
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