Tickets :: [#4539] Single dot with quoted printable wrapping

6.0.0-beta1

8/9/25

Summary	Single dot with quoted printable wrapping
Queue	Horde Framework Packages
Queue Version	HEAD
Type	Bug
State	Not A Bug
Priority	3. High
Owners	slusarz (at) horde (dot) org
Requester	jan (at) horde (dot) org
Created	10/18/2006 (6870 days ago)
Due
Updated	11/23/2006 (6834 days ago)
Assigned	10/19/2006 (6869 days ago)
Resolved	11/16/2006 (6841 days ago)
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Patch	No

11/23/2006 09:19:55 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
If you're using the sendmail mail backend you need to make sure that the options include the parameter to tell sendmail not to abort on periods. I think more recent Mail versions might include this by default, but I'm not sure. Unfortunately, this issue is dealing with the smtp backend rather than the sendmail backend. But as previously described, as far as i can tell we (and the PEAR libraries) are correctly prefixing a single period with another period - and it is the SMTP server's responsiblity to strip this leading period. So this bug should still be closed since there is nothing we can do about this.

11/16/2006 05:13:49 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #4 State ⇒ Not A Bug	Reply to this comment
If you're using the sendmail mail backend you need to make sure that the options include the parameter to tell sendmail not to abort on periods. I think more recent Mail versions might include this by default, but I'm not sure.

10/19/2006 02:29:25 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
The single dot at the last line causes the message to be cut from that line during SMTP transmissions. By the way, I don't see this at all. In fact, as your example itself indicates, the issue is that there is now 2 periods on the last line instead of 1. Anyway, preventing a single period from existing on a line is not our responsibility, it should/must be taken care of by the smtp driver (in PEAR's Net_Socket).

10/19/2006 02:27:09 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #2 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
Well, the more I look at this the more I feel it isn't a Horde problem. For example, this message: -- . .. -- will be received looking like this: -- .. .. -- So it looks like the SMTP server is not correctly removing the initial period when there is only a single period on the line (pursuant to RFC 2821). The RFC is clear it is the SMTP server's responsibilty to remove those quoting periods, not our responsibility, Further testing last night indicated Net_Socket::SMTP is sending the correct data for this message, namely: -- .. ... -- What is stranger is that its not like I am using an obscure SMTP server - I am using the latest version of postfix in the centos distribution.

10/18/2006 07:29:10 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 3. High Type ⇒ Bug Summary ⇒ Single dot with quoted printable wrapping Queue ⇒ Horde Framework Packages Assigned to Michael Slusarz State ⇒ Assigned	Reply to this comment
When sending a message with the following text: Ingo is an email-filter management application. It is fully internationalized, integrated with Horde and the IMP Webmail client, and supports both server-side (Sieve, procmail, maildrop) and client-side (IMAP) rule creation. The resulting message body looks like: Ingo is an email-filter management application. It is fully internationalize= d, integrated with Horde and the IMP Webmail client, and supports both server-side (Sieve, procmail, maildrop) and client-side (IMAP) rule creation= . The single dot at the last line causes the message to be cut from that line during SMTP transmissions.