Re: Is anyone else getting mail after it goes through a PMDF machine? (was: Odd mail package involved?)
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 10:31:48 -0500, Daniel Martin <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu> wrote:
>e4k3l9lb@umail.corel.com (Zygo Blaxell) writes:
>
>> Just to be paranoid, I'm now explicitly stripping any \r characters found
>> on line endings in outgoing messages through the mng mailing list <-> news
>> gateway software. They might be coming from the 'sn' NNTP daemon.
>>
>> I'm sending this via debian-devel and to Daniel directly.
>> If this message as filtered through debian-devel still exhibits the
>> problem, then I have some serious debugging to do. Somewhere.
>>
>> Hopefully the trailing dot at the end of every article is gone too.
>> Just to be sure, here's some tests:
>
>Well, as NNTP uses CR/LF for line endings, and so does SMTP, you ought
>to be fine, unless your mail gateway gets news through a TCP
>connection and sends mail by calling sendmail (or similar) via the
>command line, and not through a tcp connection to port 25; for details
>see the exim man page about the "dropcr" option.
>
>But there's something weirder still going on.
>
>The header-loss that was happening before (with all the extra blank
>lines) has been fixed. HOWEVER, the copy sent directly to me and
>through debian-devel differ in that the one sent through debian devel
>was missing the "tests": the mail sent directly to me ended with:
>
>> Just to be sure, here's some tests:
>>
>> .
>> . dot
>> ..
>> .. dot dot
>
>And then it had a signature about Corel. Something isn't behaving
>properly somewhere. On the very slim chance it's Debian, this message
>contains one more paragraph after this one; if it's missing, there's a
>problem with Debian's mailers.
>
>.
>
>There. Now, since this paragraph is visible, it's not Debian's
>problem.
>
>
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zblaxell@furryterror.org for play, and zblaxell@feedme.hungrycats.org for PGP.
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