Dave Powell, MMfab wrote:

>Thanks to all who responded.
>
>Beechglen mentioned that nmmail can have a problem with attachments with
>periods in columns 1 & 67.
>
>Quick testing on my end seems to confirm this.  With quoted-printable encoding
>on a short variable-length file with no trailing spaces,  a line with just 66
>'x's followed by a '.' ends the message at that point, but it works if I add
>or drop an 'x', or put a character after the '.'.  A line with just a period
>in column 1 ends the message, but it works if I add something after the
>period.
>
>
NMMAIL is missing a step in sending the data to the SMTP server,
ususally called "dot-stuffing":
Section 4.5.2 of RFC2821:
-  Before sending a line of mail text, the SMTP client checks the
   first character of the line.  If it is a period, one additional
   period is inserted at the beginning of the line.
http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2821/Output/chapter4.html#sub5sub2

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