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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING PERIOD

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A client using custom document templates for customer communication experienced a recurring issue where periods would disappear from emails sent to specific customers. The bug was traced back to an SMTP client implementation that incorrectly handled lines starting with a period. A similar problem showed up later when a different team failed to patch the bug, resulting in some customers receiving incorrect billing information in their emails.