Re: mail delivery error 421

Wietse:
> What is not clear about the following text:
>
> After the SMTP DATA command, the client must prepend "." to
> message lines that start with ".".
>
> See also RFC 2821.

Mailing List:
> What is not clear is how this will help me in this specific case? Are you
> trying to tell me it's Outlook's fault for not adding that "." and that
> therefore it is a Microsoft issue and not a Postfix issue?

In the part of my reply that you so kindly cut away was the
answer to this:

> Out: 250 Ok: queued as 298EE1E4010
>
> In:
>
>
> ../_beans/com.sco.tta.server.log.ConsoleSink,server/printing/*:print%%PID%%=
>
> Out: 502 Error: command not implemented
>
> In: .l
>
> Out: 502 Error: command not implemented

This clearly shows that the client sends message content without
prepending "." to lines starting with ".".

If you don't understand what the consequence of that is then you
really should examine RFC 2821.

Wietse