2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ee80be43..e2ac5d13 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 				Release Notes:
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+fetchmail-4.2.9 ()
+* Don't byte-stuff when writing to an MDA.
+
+There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
+
 fetchmail-4.2.8 (Sun Sep 28 16:59:59 EDT 1997)
 * Fixed a bug in POP2 compilation introduced sometime after 4.0.8.
 * Only emit length-mismatch messages in verbose mode.
diff --git a/driver.c b/driver.c
index 796574d4..db8b0dd4 100644
--- a/driver.c
+++ b/driver.c
@@ -464,11 +464,8 @@ static int stuffline(struct query *ctl, char *buf)
      * use .<CR><LF> as EOM.  If it does, the server will already have
      * decorated any . lines it sends back up.
      */
-    if (!protocol->delimited && *buf == '.')
-	if (sinkfp && ctl->mda)
-	    fputs(".", sinkfp);
-	else if (ctl->smtp_socket != -1)
-	    SockWrite(ctl->smtp_socket, buf, 1);
+    if (!protocol->delimited && *buf == '.' && ctl->smtp_socket != -1)
+	SockWrite(ctl->smtp_socket, buf, 1);
 
     /* we may need to strip carriage returns */
     if (ctl->stripcr)