In article <305923b7-97ac-759d-1c36-09af230425bb(_at_)wizmail(_dot_)org> you
write:
On 16/01/2019 18:50, John R Levine wrote:
I don't object to it, but since it doesn't solve any real problem, why
bother?
Efficiency. Not having to do dot-stuffing means that sendfile etc.
can be used.
On my system, and I think most Unix systems, the line endings are changed
from \n to \r\n on the fly, so you still can't use sendfile.
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