SMTP vs. dots

[Chris Torek]

In article <2195 at felix.UUCP> zemon at felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes:
>I started playing with the sendmail stuff which came with 4.3BSD ....
>The SMTP protocol seems to have ended the message at the
>dot and ignored the rest.

The SMTP protocol is defined as doing this.  Dots at the beginnings
of lines must be quoted by doubling.  Sendmail's IPC mailer does
this when speaking SMTP to another mailer.  If you are feeding
input to sendmail (e.g., via UUCP) and want it NOT to terminate at
a line that reads `.', run `sendmail -i'.  The 4.3 rmail presumably
does this (I have not checked).
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