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On 08 Feb 2001, Steven E. Harris wrote:

> Okay, that sounds reasonable. So an empty body doesn't *need"
> "<CRLF>.<CRLF>" to terminate. It only needs ".<CRLF>" to
> terminate. If the body isn't empty, we leave the first <CRLF> as
> part of the body and discard the ".<CRLF>". That would match the
> behavior I've seen on MTAs I've tested with. This interpretation
> makes sense, but it's not immediately apparent from reading RFC821.

I don't think you should treat the <CRLF> differently for empty
messages.  Here's how to send an empty message:

DATA<CRLF>
.<CRLF>

Here's a nonempty message:

DATA<CRLF>
foo<CRLF>
.<CRLF>

The message content is one line, containing the characters "foo" plus
the EOL that comes after it.

kai
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