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- From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Re: Something is stripping blanks....
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 15:36:49 -0500
- Organization: Science Applications Intl Corp - Dayton, Ohio
- Lines: 45
- Message-ID: <1hifp1INN1sk@dayub.dayton.saic.com>
- References: <1992Dec24.082048.1098@dmc.com>
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-
- Dick Munroe (munroe@dmc.com) wrote:
- : I've performed a series of experiments and something is
- : stripping blanks from mail messages:
-
- : 1. Sent a message containing:
-
- : aaaaaaaaaaa
- :
- : bbbbbbbbbbb
-
- : to myself via UUCP%"munroe@dmc.com"
-
- : The "blank" line had been filled with spaces.
-
- : 2. Checked the spool file, it had spaces in it.
-
- : 3. Checked the copy self copy delivered by mail. IT had spaces
- : in it.
-
- : 4. When UUCP/MX delivered the mail, the spaces were gone.
-
- : So a few questions:
-
- : (1) is my experiment bogus?
-
- No it is not.
-
- : (2) Does DECUS UUCP (or MX, since that's REALLY the entity that
- : had the message last) strip blanks?
-
- It is MX that is doing the stripping.
-
- : (3) Is this behavior legal?
-
- I don't think so.
-
- : (4) Should it be stopped?
-
- I had mentioned it to Hunter after I found it. You can see it also if
- you are running MX and not UUCP. I noticed it with a mail message send via
- SMTP and delivered with the traling blanks removed from each line.
-
-
- --
- Earle Ake Internet: <ake@dayton.saic.com> NSI-DECnet (SPAN): 28276::ake
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