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Re: Mail Data termination

2011-08-16 23:27:11

Steve Atkins wrote:

On Aug 16, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Hector Santos wrote:

In short, it was technically an invalid RFC5322 message or probably more 
correct, the SMTP client failed to properly escape dotted lines for whatever 
reason (I think Ned is correct that it probably did the QP conversion on the 
fly).

Can you clarify what you mean by an "invalid RFC 5322 message"? Bare CRs or 
LFs? Lines longer than 998 characters long? Something else?

As stated above, its probably more correct to read it as a SMTP client failing to escape a dotted line (<CRLF>.<CRLF>) which is not the true EOD terminator.

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Sincerely

Hector Santos
http://www.santronics.com


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