Marilyn Davis wrote:
>
> Exim delivered the mail in the first place, reading the message off
> smtp. "\n.\n" doesn't stop smtp, I take it?
Andreas already gave you the right solution to your problem, but for an
explanation, you should read RFC 2821. \n.\n is, in fact, the token
that marks the end of the DATA stream. In particular, see section 4.5.2.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
- Marc