[Gambas-user] problems running component gb.net.smtp

Benoît Minisini gambas at ...1...
Mon Sep 5 22:02:11 CEST 2011


> Hello all, I'm playing with the gb.net.smtp component and there is
> something strange in the behaviour. Almost all works fine, I can send my
> emails using "text/plain", but sometimes, when I put dots '.' in the
> message, some of those is preceeded (in the received email) by an equal
> sign '=' ; note: not all dots, some are passed exactly how in the source
> text file. I monitored the TCP packets with a net analyzer (ethereal) and
> there is no doubt, the unwanted chars are introduced by the net.smtp
> component. It's something involving the Mime encoding ? Has the
> "plain/text" some encoding rule for ascii characters ? Actually, I'm
> thinking about writing my own smtp client, but if you know why such extra
> chars are generated and how to solve the problem, I will continue to use
> the original gb.net.smtp. My development platform is Puppy Linux V4.3.1
> and Gambas 2.2 . Thank you for your attention.

Can you provide me the sent e-mail and the received e-mail (in full text, with 
the headers) ?

-- 
Benoît Minisini




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