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- From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
- Subject: Re: Nested mail?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.204030.12703@decuac.dec.com>
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- Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: gildor.dco.dec.com
- Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <peter.715977755@merlin>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:40:30 GMT
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-
- It means that in the middle of sending one mail message -- in the conversation
- with sendmail -- another mail command showed up before the first one was
- finished.
-
- For example, in sending mail to another host, your local sendmail might
- issues commands in this order:
-
- Helo
-
- Mail From: <some address> (This is the MAIL command telling the sendmail to
- which you are connected that you are sendin
- mail)
- rcpt to: <the to address>
-
- data
-
-
- And then the mail goes here up to a line with a period only in the
- first position. this signals the foreign sendmail that the mail is completed.
-
- Perhaps the foreign sendmail is seeing another mail command before it is
- seeing a data command.
-
- Fred
-