From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2011-02-12T07:44:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35206] Re: Patch to Net::InternetMessageIO

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:13, Daniel Cormier <daniel.cormier@gmail.com> wrote:
> ����This patch addresses an issue when sending a message with Net::SMTP
> where the last line starts with a period and does not end with \n or
> \r\n.
[...]
> ��Now properly sends the last line of an email when it begins with a
> period and does not end with \n or \r\n.

When ESMTP is active, the text can be sent using BDAT, and there's no
escaping of . required.

So I think a better patch would be to improve the data() method in
net/smtp, and make it use BDAT if in ESMTP mode--and if not, do the
escaping there.


mathew
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