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On 29 Jan 2001, Steven E. Harris wrote:

> ,----[ RFC821 4.1.1 ]
>| The mail data is terminated by a line containing only a period,
>| that is the character sequence "<CRLF>.<CRLF>" (see Section 4.5.2
>| on Transparency).  This is the end of mail data indication
> `----

Actually, there is a contradiction right here, because `a line
containing only a period' and the character sequence "<CRLF>.<CRLF>"
are not the same thing.

I presume that the first part is the relevant part and the
"<CRLF>.<CRLF>" thing is just an explanation.  Maybe the explanation
makes it clear that there is no whitespace either before or after the
period.  If they had said the character sequence ".<CRLF>", then
"foo.<CRLF>" might be a valid suffix for a message, which is not what
the standard intends.

kai
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