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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail bug in "Impression after a month of trouble." ?
From:       Sven Radej <sven () lisa ! exp ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-07-17 14:39:12
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Nicolas Brodu wrote:
(...)
>Oh, reproducing is simple, I think we should have CC this to kde-devel.
>Look at this line :
>.. See, it's starting with dot space
>.This one with dot and no space
>..
>dot alone above, no dot here
>
>I guess all this will be garbled when showing up on kde-devel... so I do it
>again with a neutralizer :
>
>}. See, it's starting with dot space
>}.This one with dot and no space
>}.
>}dot alone above, no dot here
>
>AFAIK dot has a very special meaning in SMTP protocol, for example if
>you type 'mail user' at shell prompt, you end the message with a dot alone on a
>line. I suppose there is a mechanism somewhere to double the first character so
>that a line beginning with dot doesn't end the message.
>
>Now I don't have the RFC handy, but I'm pretty sure this is the core of the
>problem.

I don't know what to do here. As far as I know there is no special parsing of
dots in kmail. If it is the problem with SMTP transport I don't think something
can be done abut that. Or?
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Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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