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icon4.gif   missing '.' in emails, posted by Heiko Scheit on Wed May 7 16:04:45 2003 
    icon2.gif   Re: missing '.' in emails, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed May 7 16:12:37 2003 
       icon3.gif   Re: missing '.' in emails, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed May 7 21:09:32 2003 
Message ID: 323     Entry time: Wed May 7 16:12:37 2003     In reply to: 322     Reply to this: 327
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Bug report  OS:   ELOG Version:  
Subject: Re: missing '.' in emails 
> 
> missing '.' in emails
> -----------------------
> 
> A dot '.' at the beginning of a line is not transmitted via email.
> It is stored in the entry properly though.
> 
> Test:
> ./There is a dot just before '/There...'
> 
> Greetings, Heiko

Here is what I got as email:

Test:
./There is a dot just before '/There...'

So I guess you mean ONLY a dot at the beginning of the line. In the email 
SMTP protocol, at lonely dot at the beginning of the line means "end of 
message" and the mail server stops by that. I checked my mail program and 
found out that it converts a single dot into two dots at the beginning of the 
line. I have to implement this in elgod.c. Thanks for pointing out this 
problem.
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