[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2394: kmail doesn't handle period escapes properly (SMTP and POP)
From:       Michael Haeckel <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2000-11-01 11:34:46
[Download RAW message or body]

On Wednesday,  1. November 2000 10:43, Malte Starostik wrote:
>
> The next line was composed with exactly one period at the beginning of the
> line and nothing else:
> ..
> Now, two periods:
> ..
> And here's a real life example I hit recently (quoting from a sh script)
> There is only one period in what I typed:
> .. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>
> This is the conversation to my local sendmail (over SMTP) for a test mail,
> to avoid the effect here, I indented all lines:

Thanks, I tested with quoted-printable and for some reason the first dot in a 
line is escaped there.

Now it should also work correctely for SMTP. For sendmail I worked around the 
problem by converting a line containing only a dot to ". " since I don't know 
how to do that otherwise.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
_______________________________________________
Kmail Developers mailing list
Kmail@master.kde.org
http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]