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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: SMTP vs. dots
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 13:39:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 13:39:33 1987
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In article <2195@felix.UUCP> zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes:
>
> The SMTP protocol seems to have ended the message at the
> dot and ignored the rest.

This is a "feature" of sendmail.  The original UNIX mailer /bin/mail had
this feature also.  I suspect the reason /bin/mail had it, was because
UNIX was developed in the days of ASR-33 Teletypes, which was hard to
use control characters.
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	Michael Meissner, Data General
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