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Hi John,<br>
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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?<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Bevan<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/09/2014 4:18 p.m., John Bird
wrote:<br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline">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.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline"> </div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline">Sending
and receiving is done via standard email programs, so the
encoding/decoding is not done by me.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline"> </div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline">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.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline"> </div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline">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.</div>
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