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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#2394: kmail doesn't handle period escapes properly (SMTP and POP)
From:       Graham Wheeler <gram () cequrux ! com>
Date:       1999-12-07 9:43:47
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kmail 1.0.28 (but I don't see any bug reports or fixes to indicate that the
problem doesn't exist in later versions).

If I send a message from within kmail containing a single period on the first
line, two periods on the second line, three periods on the third line, the
remote SMTP agent gets a mail body with three periods on the first line,
three on the second, and four on the third. Thus, then first line is being 
doubly escaped, which is wrong. Put another way, the message:

   .
   ..
   ...

gets sent to a remote MTA as:

   ...
   ...
   ....

If I send the same message using a different MTA, and then I fetch it using
kmail's POP3 retrieval,  I get a message with one period on the first line,
three on the second, and four on the third. Also, the subsequent line has 
its first character duplicated. Thus, the message:

   .
   ..
   ...
   done

once retrieved by kmail becomes:

   .
   ...
   ....
   ddone

-- 
Dr Graham Wheeler                        E-mail: gram@cequrux.com
CEQURUX Technologies                     Phone:  +27(21)423-6065
Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks       Fax:    +27(21)424-3656
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