Re: [Exim] Mail containing single line dot

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Author: Alberto Tablado
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mail containing single line dot
El vie, 30-01-2004 a las 22:28, SH Solutions escribió:
> Hello
>
> I'm new to this list, so please excuse, that I start asking, since I know I
> should observe the list at first. And I should also search the archive. But
> I have tried the last but according to the special type of question, I
> havn't found what I have searched for.
>
> But now to the problem.
>
> I have 9 mails in a maildir created by exim 4.30#1 on debian sarge.
> The problem is, that these 9 mails have lines only containing a single dot.
>
> How is this possible. Exim should stop acepting content lines after a line
> with a single dot, shouldn't it?


This behavior is only enforced at SMTP time.

>
> BTW all the mails are from ebay.
>
> For me this problem is somehow urgend, since we need to use some software to
> collect mail from these mailboxes and hand them over to another smtp server.
> This transmission fails because of the single line containing the dot.
>
> (Yes, it would be easy to remove that, but I want to understand why I can
> happen in the first place.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steffen
>
>
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