explanation for attachments disappearing

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Juanjo Garcia <juanjo at eurogaran.com>:
> 
> In old SMTP, a line with only one character
> -being that sole character a dot- conventionally
> signals the end of the message.

That's still true for today's SMTP.

> Amavis (or postfix, I am not sure) seems to
> obey that, and truncates the message at that point.

Yep. Of course.

> Whatever comes after, gets lost.
> Attachments and all.

Yep. Of course.
 
> This could explain similar phenomena experienced by
> other people with the same setup :
> 
> Debian Squeeze with postfix 2.7.1-1
> and Amavis vers. 1:2.6.4-3
> 
> I write to this list to :
> 
> - ask users to experiment with it
> - ask for a way to contact amavis developers
> 
> Please answer with Cc. to juanjo at eurogaran.com
> since I am not subscribed to this list.
> 
> Thank you.

What is your problem?


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