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Subject: Re: Single dot (.) causes rest of mail to be truncated
From: Ron Mitchell <ron @ bradbury . com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:13:33 -0700 (PDT)
To: majordomo users <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <199506182036.NAA14430@miles.greatcircle.com>


> Marcos Ramirez A. writes:
> >The problem is _not_ majordomo, but sendmail. Majordomo pipes the incoming 
> >mail to a sendmail process.
> > 
> >Sendmail understand a line beginning with a single dot as "end of mail", so 
> >rest is just ignored. A solution is hack the resend program to ignore a line 
> 
I'm still in the process of installing majordomo, but I came across this 
info in the O'Reilly & Assoc. book "Managing Internet Sevices":

In the majordomo.cf file they suggest that in the folowing line (about 
midway thru):

$mailer = "/usr/lib/sendmail -f\$sender -t";

they say:

"You might add a '-oi' option so sendmail won't treat a line with just a 
dot (.) as the end of a message."

I don't have any knowledge of using this, just found in in the book and 
sounded like it might be the solution to the problem.




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