From: Daniel Cormier <daniel.cormier@...>
Date: 2011-02-12T08:08:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35207] Re: Patch to Net::InternetMessageIO

Perhaps that is a better solution, but shouldn't sending a message
using DATA work properly whether in ESMTP mode or not?

Daniel

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:44 PM, mathew <meta@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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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