From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 10 15:53:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA13695 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:53:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA13689 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:53:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id QAA01845; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:53:36 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199601102353.QAA01845@intele.net> Subject: Re: . in mail messages To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:53:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601102025.MAA28288@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 10, 96 12:25:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Wolfram Schneider pointed out to me that > majordomo should allow '.' in a mail message. '.' terminates the message > only during an smtp conversation. > > so let's test it > > does it work? > . > yes it did. Or maybe it didn't. Because . !ON A LINE BYE ITSELF! typically denotes 'end of message' to mail transport agents, most mail user agents will never send out this sequence. They typically add whitespace at the end of the line. The only way to truly test this is to feed the program (server?) a file directly, without going through an MUA. Sick and twisted, idn't it? -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet