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#1 Does not properly handle leading periods.

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nobody
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2006-10-14
2006-10-14
David Hull
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I recently downloaded the OpenPOP API version:
2004.06.16.1248 and found that it does not properly
handle lines of text in the body of the message that
begin with a period (".") character. According to
RFC1932 the server will prepend a period character to
any line that begins with a period character. It is
up to the client to strip these back off as it
receives the message. The OpenPOP client fails to do
this.

To replicate this problem create a text message
similar to the following:

Line 2 should have a single dot.
.
Line 4 should have text following a leading dot.
.Hello World

The above message is currently received as:

Line 2 should have a single dot.
..
Line 4 should have text following a leading dot.
..Hello World

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