<OT> I'm testing stuff... (was Re: need some help with networking on a friends)

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:37:10 PDT 2004


Also sprach Tim Wunder:
>
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 08:04 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Also sprach Tim Wunder:
> > > Seems my message got truncated after the single line with a "."
> > > .
> > > Conducting a test, bypassing SpamAssassin...
> >
> > I believe most mail servers understand a bare "." _alone_ on a
> > line to mean "end of message; send what we've got". Why it's
> > happening in your case is beyond me.
> >
> 
> Well, you obviously got the entire message, are you using sendmail?

Yes.

> What version?

8.12.4, invoked with the -i option, which has the effect described below,
if it's relevant in this case:

       -i     Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in  incom-
              ing  messages.  This should be set if you are read-
              ing data from a file.

Kurt
-- 
So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway?  And why can't he ever
remember his Bible?


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