Re: [Exim] Escaping single dots before SMTP delivery

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Escaping single dots before SMTP delivery
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:09:09AM -0500, John Jetmore wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Simon Williams wrote:
> > If this should be done by the MTA, do you think that the dot should
> > be "escaped" by replacing it with two dots, prepending whitespace or
> > something else?


> If mutt is calling exim from the command line, exim's acting as a MUA (I
> believe). You can have it ignore the dot by adding -oi to command line
> call - like /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -bm -f <from> <to,to>


> It mutt's attaching to an SMTO server and sending, it's mutt's fault.


Mutt defaults to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi" for $sendmail, it is
a simple configuration-error.
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