diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9c00195..ee9df51 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+mail-send 0.4.4
+================================
+- Updated transparency procedure to escape <LF>. as well as <CR><LF>. to prevent SMTP smuggling on vulnerable servers.
+
 mail-send 0.4.3
 ================================
 - Bump `rustls` dependency to 0.22
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6edb01e..421d1ee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "mail-send"
 description = "E-mail delivery library with SMTP and DKIM support"
-version = "0.4.3"
+version = "0.4.4"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = [ "Stalwart Labs <hello@stalw.art>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0 OR MIT"
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ readme = "README.md"
 doctest = false
 
 [dependencies]
-smtp-proto = { version = "0.1", git = "https://github.com/stalwartlabs/smtp-proto" }
-mail-auth = { version = "0.3", git = "https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-auth", optional = true }
-mail-builder = { version = "0.3", git = "https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-builder", optional = true }
+smtp-proto = { version = "0.1" }
+mail-auth = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+mail-builder = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 base64 = "0.21"
 rand = { version = "0.8.5", optional = true }
 md5 = { version = "0.7.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/smtp/message.rs b/src/smtp/message.rs
index 172d67b..8ea5c5f 100644
--- a/src/smtp/message.rs
+++ b/src/smtp/message.rs
@@ -102,29 +102,23 @@ impl<T: AsyncRead + AsyncWrite + Unpin> SmtpClient<T> {
 
     pub async fn write_message(&mut self, message: &[u8]) -> tokio::io::Result<()> {
         // Transparency procedure
-        #[derive(Debug)]
-        enum State {
-            Cr,
-            CrLf,
-            Init,
-        }
+        let mut is_lf = false;
+
+        // As per RFC 5322bis, section 2.3:
+        // CR and LF MUST only occur together as CRLF; they MUST NOT appear
+        // independently in the body.
 
-        let mut state = State::Init;
         let mut last_pos = 0;
         for (pos, byte) in message.iter().enumerate() {
-            if *byte == b'.' && matches!(state, State::CrLf) {
+            if *byte == b'.' && is_lf {
                 if let Some(bytes) = message.get(last_pos..pos) {
                     self.stream.write_all(bytes).await?;
                     self.stream.write_all(b".").await?;
                     last_pos = pos;
                 }
-                state = State::Init;
-            } else if *byte == b'\r' {
-                state = State::Cr;
-            } else if *byte == b'\n' && matches!(state, State::Cr) {
-                state = State::CrLf;
+                is_lf = false;
             } else {
-                state = State::Init;
+                is_lf = *byte == b'\n';
             }
         }
         if let Some(bytes) = message.get(last_pos..) {