Closed Bug 67971 Opened 24 years ago Closed 18 years ago

extra periods are not being stripped

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74446

People

(Reporter: rubydoo123, Assigned: mscott)

Details

this was reported from an external source, following is the information that has 
been submitted thus far:

If the line breaks at the 75th character, and that character happens to be a 
period (.), the 75th character is changed to an equal sign (as Netscape always 
does at the end of a line) and an extra period is added.  Example: 

http://click.mp3.com/c/n_443144294/t_hBU/u_www/promos/cinram/partners/index= 
..html?lang=3Deng 

should be: 
  
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_443144294/t_hBU/u_www/promos/cinram/partners/index.html
?lang=3Deng

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

So I've done some investigating on my end and here's what I've found out: 

SMTP (the mail protocol used between mail servers) adds an 
extra period at the beginning of any line that starts with 
a period.  The client on the remote end is supposed to remove 
the extra period. 

The following unix shell script can be used to duplicate the 
problem we are seeing in Net. 6.0: 
  

#!/bin/sh 
  
### Change the TO value to something appropriate 
  
TO="nobody@mp3.com" 
  
/usr/lib/sendmail -t -oi -oem << EOF 
Content-Disposition: inline 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" 
MIME-Version: 1.0 
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.135 
From: nma@mp3.com 
To: $TO 
Subject: quoted-printable ascii test 
  
<body> 
<table border=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"8" cellspacing=3D"0" width=3D"600" 
bgcol= 
or=3D"#990000"><tr><td width=3D"250" align=3D"middle" valign=3D"top"><a 
hre= 
f=3D" 
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_704278323/t_fZ/u_studio/artist-admin/nma/main= 
.html?cp=3Dnma_img"><img height=3D"354" width=3D"130" src=3D" 
http://images.= 
mp3.com/mp3s/images/mail/nmaheader.gif" border=3D"0" 
alt=3D"NMA!"></a><p> 
</td></tr></table></body> 
EOF
See also bug 67361, bug 47606.
likely fixed in bug 74446, two months after this bug was filed.
Product: MailNews → Core
Comment 2 looks right to me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74446 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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