[imp] Incorrect handling of '.' character in IMP 2.3

Ray Jackson Ray.Jackson@cern.ch
Wed, 30 May 2001 11:17:58 +0200


What version of PHP are you using... I just downloaded 4.0.5 - is that 
the problem do you think?

Nick Ustinov wrote:

> It works just fine for me. 
> 
> Nick Ustinov
> 
> nick@videinfra.com
> http://www.videinfra.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Jackson [mailto:Ray.Jackson@cern.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:12
> To: imp@lists.horde.org
> Subject: [imp] Incorrect handling of '.' character in IMP 2.3
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I spotted a bug with IMP 2.3.7-cvs - If you compose a message and 
> include a line containing a single '.' e.g.
> 
> .
> 
> Then anything below that dot is not sent in the message and we see 
> errors in our sendmail logs.  Now, of course the reason is that '.' is 
> used in SMTP to close a connection - so obviously the '.' is not being 
> escaped properly as normal mail clients do to avoid SMTP interpreting 
> the '.' in the body as a Close Connection instruction.
> 
> Is this a PHP problem or rather an IMP specific problem?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ray
> 
> 
>