From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34690 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: SMTP question (not quite Gnus-related) Date: 09 Feb 2001 09:33:12 -0800 Organization: Tenzing Communications Inc. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87pugrhicn.fsf@torus.tenzing.com> References: <87y9vujkvd.fsf@torus.tenzing.com> <87lmrij8e2.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <8766imnfa9.fsf@torus.tenzing.com> <874ry6j5i7.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87pugtm754.fsf@torus.tenzing.com> <878znhm4rw.fsf@torus.tenzing.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170569 31653 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C208D049E for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:39:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAC13405; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:38:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:37:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29237 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:37:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ts-exch01.tenzing.com (ts-exch01.tenzing.com [63.115.0.25]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEAFD049E for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:38:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from torus (torus.seattle.tenzing.com [63.115.3.200]) by ts-exch01.tenzing.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 1PWQJ1NF; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:38:17 -0800 Original-Received: from seh by torus with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14RHQ0-0004V1-00 for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2001 09:33:12 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "09 Feb 2001 13:09:16 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 38 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34690 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34690 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Only as an example did they provide the "." 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: | R: 250 OK |=20 | S: RCPT TO: | R: 250 OK |=20 | S: RCPT TO: | R: 550 No such user here |=20 | S: RCPT TO: | R: 250 OK |=20 | S: DATA | R: 354 Start mail input; end with . | S: Blah blah blah... | S: ...etc. etc. etc. | S: . | R: 250 OK `---- See that "S: ." near then end? I kept thinking, "Isn't the first 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. --=20 Steven E. Harris :: steven.harris@tenzing.com Tenzing :: http://www.tenzing.com