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SMTP service eats the first dot of each line?
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| Lei Wu 2005-03-22, 6:07 pm |
| I have a program that send out emails. It creates .eml files and saves
them to the "Pickup" folder of SMTP service.
The emails are sent all right. However, in the quoted-printable encoded
body of the emails, if any line starts with a dot (period, full stop,
or Punkt if you're German), the dot will disappear in the received
emails.
For example, if I drop off the following email to the Pickup folder:
From: "Lei Wu" <aaa@aaa.com>
To: "Lei Wu" <aaa@aaa.com>
Subject: test
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:01:14 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
..This is a test that starts with a period.
In the received email, ".This" will become "This".
Any input would be much appreciated.
Lei
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| Lutz Elßner 2005-03-22, 6:07 pm |
| In rfc822 you can read that a dot at the begin of a line must be doubled and
the receiver removes it. Mail Software should do that right. If you talk to
the SMTP Server directly (like Telnet), you must do it.
Lutz
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| Bernard 2005-03-23, 2:52 am |
| Sounds like this issue
Periods at the beginning of a line are removed when placed into the SMTP
Pickup directory
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=286358
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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
"Lei Wu" <marathoner@sina.com> wrote in message
news:1111523319.280709.72700@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I have a program that send out emails. It creates .eml files and saves
> them to the "Pickup" folder of SMTP service.
>
> The emails are sent all right. However, in the quoted-printable encoded
> body of the emails, if any line starts with a dot (period, full stop,
> or Punkt if you're German), the dot will disappear in the received
> emails.
>
> For example, if I drop off the following email to the Pickup folder:
>
> From: "Lei Wu" <aaa@aaa.com>
> To: "Lei Wu" <aaa@aaa.com>
> Subject: test
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:01:14 -0500
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>
> .This is a test that starts with a period.
>
>
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> In the received email, ".This" will become "This".
>
> Any input would be much appreciated.
>
> Lei
>
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| Lei Wu 2005-03-23, 6:09 pm |
| Thank you, Bernard and Lutz.
I followed the instructions of the Microsoft article to change the
metabase key "DisablePickupDotStuff" and it resolved the issue.
Lei
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