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From: csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: '\n.\n' in body of mail
Message-ID: <757@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Dec 90 09:26:47 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.141102.17655@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <1990Dec14.141102.17655@mp.cs.niu.edu>, by rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert):
> In article <1990Dec7.173846.4824@comm.wang.com> lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) writes:
>>I've been trying to debug another implementation of an SMTP mail agent,
>>and one of the problems I'm facing is dealing with a '\n.\n' embedded
>>in the body of the mail.
>  Check 'sendmail.cf' and see if there is a line containing 'Oi'.  If there
> is, simply remove the line, rebuild the freeze file if you are using one
> (with 'sendmail -bz', and your problem should be solved.

True.  But another one will begin (at least under Sun's version of sendmail).
I found that no mail could be transfered over our ethernet between sendmail's.
The problem is that sendmail assumes that a '.' on its own ends the DATA
input when using SMTP and the transmitting sendmail will send a '.' and
then wait for an OK message.  With Oi switched off the receiver just sits
there waiting for more data and so the connection times out without
sending the mail.
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