[DUG] Email attachment encoding/decoding

[Robo]

Yeah, it's most likely an escape character.

Robo

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Bevan Edwards <bevan at achieve.co.nz> wrote:

>  Hi John,
>
> Probably because when the data is being sent via SMTP, a single dot and
> CRLF on a line indicates the end of the message data - so perhaps it's
> being added by a mail server in order to prevent end of data being
> specified?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bevan
>
>
>
> On 13/09/2014 4:18 p.m., John Bird wrote:
>
>   I have a program that sends data via an email attachment,  the file
> data is encoded into ascii text (ie all characters are ASCII and the whole
> range can be used) and contains CRLF between the lines of data.
>
>  Sending and receiving is done via standard email programs, so the
> encoding/decoding is not done by me.
>
>  When the file is received and the attachment saved, I have noticed an
> oddity – if a line in the sent data occasionally happens to start with a
> full-stop “.” (ie immediately after the CRLF)  then at the other end there
> appears two full-stops instead of one.   Otherwise the attachment arrives
> the same as sent.
>
>  Anyone have ideas why this happens and how to get around this?  eg I am
> wondering if I should replace the CRLF characters with something else so
> the encoding does not treat it as text.
>
>
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