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4:17 pm May 21, 2026
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phranque
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One for the grey hairs.
dot terminator in email
Drag_Racer
Msg#:3863993
3:20 am on Mar 6, 2009
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Out of an old habit, I still teminate system to customer emails with 2 newlines and a dot by itself. This due to archaic MTUs seeing a dot on a line by itself as an 'end of msg' terminator. Should I still bother?
bakedjake
Msg#:3864021
4:39 am on Mar 6, 2009
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Only if you're speaking SMTP directly. ;-)
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