pop3 termination octet

weedom has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hello. I'm building a pop3 server, just for fun, and RFC1939 tells me to print out a decimal 064 "termination octet" after a multiline response from the server. I've tried

print "\064\n\r" 
#and 
print "\064$CRLF"
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but Thunderbird still times out waiting for the termincation octet. (I've turned on logging in Thunderbird so that I know exactly where it's pausing). How do I print this octet properly?

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Re: pop3 termination octet by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 09, 2005 at 10:54 UTC
The RFC actually reads: When all lines of the response have been sent, a final line is sent, consisting of a termination octet (decimal code 046, ".") and a CRLF pair. What you want to be printing is: `print ".\r\n";` [download] /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: pop3 termination octet by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 09, 2005 at 10:52 UTC
`"\064"` is an octal 064, not a decimal 064.	[reply] [d/l]