---------------------------------------------------------- TeamGrumman-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 07/14/05: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 10:10 AM - List Digest Truncation Fixed!! (Matt Dralle) 2. 10:50 AM - Re: List Digest Truncation Fixed!! (James Courtney) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 10:10:23 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: TeamGrumman-List: List Digest Truncation Fixed!! --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: Matt Dralle Dear Listers, I finally figured out today what was causing the occasional truncation of the daily List Digest emails. Seems that every once in a while a message would contain a single "." (period) on line all by itself. The mailers would see this and assume that this was the universal emailer signal for "end of message", and consequently wouldn't process any of the rest of the Digest message. I've put in a filter today to remove any of these sequences so we should be back in business on the Digests. Best regards, Matt Dralle Matronics Email List Admin. Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:50:08 AM PST US From: "James Courtney" Subject: RE: TeamGrumman-List: List Digest Truncation Fixed!! --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "James Courtney" Hey Matt, I don't know quite what the following means: "I've put in a filter today to remove any of these sequences so we should be back in business on the Digests." But let me suggest per this excerpt from RFC 821: 4.5.2. TRANSPARENCY Without some provision for data transparency the character sequence "." ends the mail text and cannot be sent "forbidden" sequences. To allow all user composed text to be transmitted transparently the following procedures are used. 1. Before sending a line of mail text the sender-SMTP checks the first character of the line. If it is a period, one additional period is inserted at the beginning of the line. 2. When a line of mail text is received by the receiver-SMTP it checks the line. If the line is composed of a single period it is the end of mail. If the first character is a period and there are other characters on the line, the first character is deleted. If this isn't how it currently works then maybe have your filter just slap a leading '.' on any lines starting with '.'. This way the email contents remain unaltered. Many thanks for your hard work! Jamey James Courtney AA5B N72T @ KSQL -----Original Message----- From: owner-teamgrumman-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-teamgrumman-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Matt Dralle Subject: TeamGrumman-List: List Digest Truncation Fixed!! --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: Matt Dralle --> Dear Listers, I finally figured out today what was causing the occasional truncation of the daily List Digest emails. Seems that every once in a while a message would contain a single "." (period) on line all by itself. The mailers would see this and assume that this was the universal emailer signal for "end of message", and consequently wouldn't process any of the rest of the Digest message. I've put in a filter today to remove any of these sequences so we should be back in business on the Digests. Best regards, Matt Dralle Matronics Email List Admin. Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft