Comments on: The story of the rogue exclamation mark (!) or how I lost 4 hours of my life. http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/ Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:20:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Joshua Smyth (Admin) http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-13579 Joshua Smyth (Admin) Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:20:34 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-13579 Haha, cool an answer to the reason! Haha, cool an answer to the reason!

]]> By: Sean http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-13575 Sean Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:06:23 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-13575 MUCH appreciated! Saved me quite a bit of grief MUCH appreciated!
Saved me quite a bit of grief

]]> By: Abey Babu http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-13272 Abey Babu Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:37:18 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-13272 saved me a lot of hours . was #4 in my google search Thanks, Abey saved me a lot of hours . was #4 in my google search

Thanks,
Abey

]]> By: Mike http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-12918 Mike Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:34:12 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-12918 you just saved me multiple hours of pain and suffering! and thank you for making the title search engine friendly by actually typing out "exclamation!" you just saved me multiple hours of pain and suffering!
and thank you for making the title search engine friendly by actually typing out “exclamation!”

]]> By: Janis http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-12299 Janis Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:22:10 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-12299 Thanks a lot! Saved me time too. I had seen this before when using sendmail from Perl, but had forgotted the exact reason and how it can be dealt with. In Perl, simply split the long string and insert prior to the (!) print MAIL "\n"; where MAIL is the variable for the sendmail handle. Cheers Thanks a lot! Saved me time too. I had seen this before when using sendmail from Perl, but had forgotted the exact reason and how it can be dealt with. In Perl, simply split the long string and insert prior to the (!)
print MAIL “\n”;
where MAIL is the variable for the sendmail handle.
Cheers

]]> By: chung http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-11856 chung Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:12:47 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-11856 Thanks for the solution... Thanks for the solution…

]]> By: noodlekadoodle http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-11480 noodlekadoodle Sat, 28 May 2011 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-11480 Thanks for your story... I was on the same track as you, finding the exclamation point in my emails, changing the content to find that the exclamation point moved, printing to the screen to find there's no exclamation point there. It probably would have taken a couple more hours to figure out that it was a lack of newlines causing the problem. So, thank you very much for posting your experience and saving me time. Thanks for your story… I was on the same track as you, finding the exclamation point in my emails, changing the content to find that the exclamation point moved, printing to the screen to find there’s no exclamation point there. It probably would have taken a couple more hours to figure out that it was a lack of newlines causing the problem. So, thank you very much for posting your experience and saving me time.

]]> By: Eugene http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-10512 Eugene Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:48:09 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-10512 Sorry to be late, but long raw lines in email violate RFC 2822 2.1.1. Line Length Limits Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822 So there you go, your messages were breaking RFC and sendmail is obligated to enforce RFC. Sorry to be late, but long raw lines in email violate RFC 2822 2.1.1. Line Length Limits

Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822

So there you go, your messages were breaking RFC and sendmail is obligated to enforce RFC.

]]> By: Wendy http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-8719 Wendy Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:12:44 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-8719 Another one of your happy customers :) I too had a mysterious exclamation mark appearing - now I can safely skip this problem and move on to the actual problem I am trying to solve. Thank you! Another one of your happy customers :) I too had a mysterious exclamation mark appearing – now I can safely skip this problem and move on to the actual problem I am trying to solve. Thank you!

]]> By: Nick http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-8048 Nick Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:27:40 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/blog/the-story-of-the-rogue-exclamation-mark-or-how-i-lost-4-hours-of-my-life/#comment-8048 Thanks! I wasted a couple of hours thinking it was to do with character encoding. You definitely saved me a couple more! Thanks! I wasted a couple of hours thinking it was to do with character encoding. You definitely saved me a couple more!

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