Re: Mail transfer bogons, was Re: ATTRIBUTE_WEAK

[Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>]

On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:38:12 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message <3.0.6.32.19990227221927.00850720@pop.globalserve.net>you write:
>  > >Huh?  It only has one "." in the message I sent out.
>  > >
>  > >It only has one "." in the archives.
>  > http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1999-02/msg01238.html
>  > >
>  > >Check your MUA, it's breaking things.
>  > 
>  > My MUA is perfectly normal. It must be the listserv, since there's no
>  > reason why my mail client would be programmed to mutate some incoming
>  > messages before displaying them. I have notified the egcs.cygnus.com
>  > postmaster about this spurious character duplication issue.
>Is anyone else seeing this problem?  I'm certainly not seeing it and it's
>certainly fine in the archives.

I'm not seeing this either.

Dot duplication at the beginning of lines is normal - required in fact - for
the text following DATA in an SMTP exchange.  The receiving MTA is supposed
to strip out the dupes before delivering the message.  If Mr. Derbyshire is
seeing duplicate dots then his local MTA is malfunctioning.

The next line of this message consists of one dot.
.
Paul, you'll get two copies of this message - one direct, one via the list. 
I predict you'll see two dots on the line above in both copies.  Only if one
copy has one dot and the other two may you blame the list.

zw