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How to manage "." in message body ???

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jasonoconnell

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Mar 6, 2001
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Does anybody know how to handle a message containing "." on a line by itself ?
SMTP provides byte stuffing ie. prepend another period and it will get stripped out by the SMTP-receiver but sendmail (on FreeBSD) just seems to send ".." in the message body.

Cheers in advance
Jason
 
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