Re: SMTP question (not quite Gnus-related)

["Steven E. Harris" <steven.harris@tenzing.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Only as an example did they provide the "<CRLF>.<CRLF>" character
> sequence.

Re-reading it with this point of view, I can see that. The one
"example" that I found frustrating was the last one in 3.1:

,----[ RFC821 (section 3.1) ]
|  S: MAIL FROM:<Smith@Alpha.ARPA>
|  R: 250 OK
| 
|  S: RCPT TO:<Jones@Beta.ARPA>
|  R: 250 OK
| 
|  S: RCPT TO:<Green@Beta.ARPA>
|  R: 550 No such user here
| 
|  S: RCPT TO:<Brown@Beta.ARPA>
|  R: 250 OK
| 
|  S: DATA
|  R: 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
|  S: Blah blah blah...
|  S: ...etc. etc. etc.
|  S: <CRLF>.<CRLF>
|  R: 250 OK
`----

See that "S: <CRLF>.<CRLF>" near then end? I kept thinking, "Isn't the
first <CRLF> implicit in the fact that it's a new line after the
'etc.' line? Hmm, maybe the really do mean that you need all five
bytes as the terminator." Our discussion now makes me see this example
as an error, perhaps due to being overly verbose.

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