Re: Attachment altered because of 7 bit (none) encoding.
> Also, I am on a SunOS 5.8 system with
> % uname -a
> SunOS xx.xx.xxx.xx 5.8 Generic_117350-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
>
> % mail -V
> mail: illegal option -- V
> mail: Usage: [-ehpPqr] [-f file] [-x debuglevel]
> or [-tw] [-m message_type] [-T file] [-x debuglevel] persons
> or [-x debuglevel]
I repeated the test on SunOS 5.6:
$ uname -a
SunOS xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 5.6 Generic_105181-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
$ od -c testfile
0000000 # \n \n . \n \n # \n
0000010
$ mail username < testfile
$ tail /var/mail/username | od -c
0000000 C o n t e n t - T y p e : t e
0000020 x t \n C o n t e n t - L e n g t
0000040 h : 9 \n \n # \n \n . \n \n # \n \n \n
0000060
The dot did not get doubled. It should not. Single dot at the beginning
of line gets doubled only[1] when being sent between two SMTP-speaking MTAs.
By "when being sent" I mean "it's only 'wire' format that has the single
dot at the beginning of line doubled". MUAs are not supposed to treat
this situation in any special way (as opposed to '\n\nFrom ' case when
dealing with MBOX stored mails).
I'm afraid I have to say that IMHO there's something wrong with your
mail system...
[1] There might be mail protocols other then (E)SMTP that do it.
I can't name one right away, but...
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