Subject: A single '.' on a line (RFC1521 vs. PINE)

From: [email-masked] (Johan Holmberg)
Date: 09 Dec 1995 15:17:23 +0100

Hi !

>From RFC 1521:

      (7) Some mail transport agents will corrupt data that includes
      certain literal strings.  In particular, a period (".") alone on a
      line is known to be corrupted by some (incorrect) SMTP
      implementations, and a line that starts with the five characters
      "From " (the fifth character is a SPACE) are commonly corrupted as
      well.  A careful composition agent can prevent these corruptions
      by encoding the data (e.g., in the quoted-printable encoding,
      "=46rom " in place of "From " at the start of a line, and "=2E" in
      place of "." alone on a line.

As far as I can see PINE 3.91 handles "From " but not the single '.'.

The handling of "From " is controlled by the compile time define
'ENCODE_FROMS'. I have looked through the code but can't find any
corresponding code for handling of '.'.

Have I missed something or was this intentionally
left out from PINE 3.91 ?

Its all to common that buggy MTA's interpret '.' as the end of the
mail. Even if I have a correct MTA myself I can't controll the
receiving end (or intermediate MTA's).

/johan holmberg

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:58:26 -0800 (PST)

This will be fixed in Pine 3.92...

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On 9 Dec 1995, Johan Holmberg wrote:

> Errors-To: [email-masked]
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> To: [email-masked]
> From: Johan Holmberg <[email-masked]>
> Subject: A single '.' on a line (RFC1521 vs. PINE)
> Date: 09 Dec 1995 15:17:23 +0100
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
>
>
> Hi !
>
> From RFC 1521:
>