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Re: [mv] Trouble getting piece of perl script working HELP! Full text
At 08:23 AM 9/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from mikeh@minivend.com ******
>
>Quoting Jarno Niemela (jargon@iki.fi):
>> Still my email has cut in half!
>>
>> But now I managed to figure out why :)
>>
>> It seems that if theres three lines with just a '.' char in it, the
>> minivend mail-list software will cut the message.
>>
>
>How do you know what the mail list software (the pretty standard
>Majordomo of a late version) is what is doing it?
Well, not for sure, but actually I don't care, as long
as I found a workaround.
>Actually, I bet it is an intervening mail transport. A period on a line
>by itself is the way that SMTP ends message data. 8-)
Hmm.. I would think that the SMTP uses a bit more sophisticated protocol and
special char combinations, in transfering messages.
But then who cares.
As long as we know to avoid the way I used.
