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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Lines starting with period.
Message-ID: <159@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 20:35:03 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.159
Posted: Thu Jan  2 20:35:03 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 07:03:30 EST
References: <176@oberon.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <176@oberon.UUCP> blarson@oberon.UUCP (Bob Larson) writes:
>Why can't unix mailers handle lines staring with periods?
>(or is it only lines containing a single period and nothing else?)

Most Unix mailers can be set to ignore lines with a single dot.
Otherwise, this terminates messages.  If you can determine who
is truncating messages, ask them to fix it.  (e.g., sendmail -i)
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}