--- sendmail-8.14.4/sendmail/sendmail.8.old	2011-03-03 11:13:10.000000000 +0100
+++ sendmail-8.14.4/sendmail/sendmail.8	2011-03-03 11:18:22.938108268 +0100
@@ -224,8 +224,9 @@
 ``Received:'' lines in the message are counted.
 .TP
 .B \-i
-Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in incoming messages.
-This should be set if you are reading data from a file.
+Do not strip a leading dot from lines in incoming messages, and
+do not treat a dot on a line by itself as the end of an incoming
+message. This should be set if you are reading data from a file.
 .TP
 .BI "\-L " tag
 Set the identifier used in syslog messages to the supplied