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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Re: SMTP Server error status=20EC
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:28:39 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
- Lines: 29
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1k33onINN29k@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1993Jan25.145527.11506@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu
-
- In article <1993Jan25.145527.11506@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- =We hit a problem with the MX SMTP Server today. It received a message with an
- =invalid address from our campus mailer, and instead of aborting the message in a
- =tidy way it just rejected the message with status 20EC. This left the mailer
- =thinking that the message had not been sent, so it requeued the message and
- =tried to send it again 15 minutes later, when the same thing happened on the
- =VAX.
- =
- =This is a portion of the SMTP Server log file:
- =
- =STM[4]: Receive "MAIL FROM:<@jnt.ac.uk,@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+
- =STM[4]: Send "501 Invalid address:
- <@jnt.ac.uk,@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,
- @[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,
- @[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.a
- =STM[4]: Error: status=20EC
-
- Now, wait a minute. The SMTP Server process only deals with INCOMING mail.
- If the same thing happened 15 minutes later, it means the SENDING machine is
- screwed up. Your machine complained of an invalid address, but the remote
- machine insisted on retrying the mail. Could you clarify your claim?
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-