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From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: . in mail messages
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Barnacle Wes wrote:
> 
> Or maybe it didn't.  Because . !ON A LINE BYE ITSELF! typically denotes
> 'end of message' to mail transport agents, most mail user agents will
> never send out this sequence.

    Don't most MTA's have a switch that ignores that?  I know sendmail
does (-i).
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"