[Oberon] Format of MailMessages in Oberon.

[eas lab]

As I recall from the RFC and live-telnet-confirm-tests:

email text ends when receiving the line:
"."

This *NOW* seems absurd, since it would cut-off/lose all text
following such an unintended/innocent <terminator>.

A self test email would confirm/test this?

Since the 'revolution' ISPs are unreliable here, and I'm forced
to use gmail, which masks the RFC spec. by using http, so that
they can push-adverts-in-yo-face.

While I was using [and modified: to do `Sender authenticate`]
TextMail.Mod, I never considered the "." issue.
Apparently the "." terminator was automatically sent.

== Chris Glur.

OK, since I opened this can-o-worms: what is the conclusion?

-> Unix_Obe~Src.tgz 3492833
->  fld/temi      22295 2001-10-08 17:26 src/NO/TextMail.Mod

        PROCEDURE SendText(S: NS.Connection; VAR R: Texts.Reader; user: ARRAY OF
        VAR s: ARRAY 512 OF CHAR; t: ARRAY 32 OF CHAR; i, j: INTEGER;
        BEGIN
                s := "Mime-Version: 1.0"; NS.WriteString(S, s);
                s := "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=";
                i := 0; WHILE s[i] # 0X DO INC(i) END; s[i] := 22X; INC(i);
                t := "iso-8859-1";
                j := 0; WHILE t[j] # 0X DO s[i] := t[j]; INC(j); INC(i) END; s[i
                NS.WriteString(S, s);
                s := "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"; NS.WriteString(S, s);
                s := "X-Mailer: Original Oberon-mailer by RS/ARD"; NS.WriteStrin
                IF CopySelf THEN
                        s := "Bcc: "; Strings.Append(s, user); NS.WriteString(S,
                END;
                REPEAT
                        ReadStringO2I(R, s, FALSE);
                        IF (s[0] = ".") & (s[1] = 0X) THEN s[1] := "."; s[2] :=
                        SendCmd(S, s, "")
                UNTIL R.eot;
                SendCmd(S, ".", "")
        END SendText;
----
See "." handling ?


On 7/1/15, peter at easthope.ca <peter at easthope.ca> wrote:
> Hello Oberon Experts,
>
> When a message is sent with Mail.Panel, the System.Log
> shows this line.
> RCV: 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
>
> That appears to be an artifact from interactive submission of a message..
> Not significant when Mail.Panel sends the contents of a marked viewer.
>
> MailMessages has the mboxrd format with addition of the "." line.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox#Family
>
> Is there any benefit in keeping the "." line in MailMessages?
>
> Thanks,                             ... Peter E.
>
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