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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: '\n.\n' in body of mail
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.180410.2699@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 18:04:10 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.141102.17655@mp.cs.niu.edu> <757@keele.keele.ac.uk>
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In article <757@keele.keele.ac.uk> csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>From article <1990Dec14.141102.17655@mp.cs.niu.edu>, by rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert):
>>  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).

 If I recall I did add a warning that the 'Oi' might be there for a reason.

>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.

  If Sun sendmails do this they are badly broken (which probably isn't news to
anyone).  The '.' to terminate the SMTP data phase is part of the SMTP
protocol, and is supposed to be implemented quite apart from the presence
of 'Oi' in 'sendmail.cf'.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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