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- Subject: RE: PMDF protocol error
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- From: Ned Freed <ned@sigurd.innosoft.com>
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 03:23:59 -0800 (PST)
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- > The VMS-mail-limit of 255 characters is not the problem !!!
-
- That remains to be seen. See below.
-
- > I put a mail into a save_set, mailed it through VMS-mail (foreign) to
- > another PMDF-WEP-system with no problems (VMS V5.5-1), restored the
- > save_set and editted the PMDF-mail-file so that it would deliver this
- > mail to me.
- > Using the command, "$ MAIL/PROT=PMDF_MAILSHR 'filename'", delivered
- > the mail correctly. The same PMDF V3.1 version is used here.
-
- Delivering the mail to yourself on the local node proves absolutely nothing. In
- particular, the line length limitation in VMS MAIL only applies when delivering
- messages to remote MAIL-11 users.
-
- Avoiding the network transfer is not the issue either. Since the error is being
- reported from the local channel all indications are that the message made it to
- the final PMDF system just fine. You are avoiding a network transfer which, as
- far as I can tell, has absolutely nothing to do with the problem at hand.
-
- > Furthermore, I was not able to find a file that had strings longer
- > than appr. 80 characters.
-
- I don't know what this means. Do you mean that your sample message had no long
- lines in it? If so, this is all the more reason for your test to have worked
- out fine. The issue is what's in the message that's failing on the system where
- it is failing.
-
- Despite the fact that PMDF V3.1 is totally obsolete and hence we don't support
- it at all, I'm willing to try and help you figure out what's happening here.
-
- First of all, it is absolutely imperative that you be able to isolate the exact
- message file that is failing on the exact system where the problem is
- happening. Nothing else will suffice. Once you have obtained a copy of this
- message please send it to me and I check it out.
-
- Second, you should enable slave_debug on your l channel. This will produce
- a more detailed trace in the L_MASTER.LOG file. Please send that to me as well.
-
- Third, please check all the recipient addresses in the message and determine
- whether or not they are local. These addresses appear on the second and
- subsequent lines of the message file. A line containing two control-a
- characters separates the recipient list from the message header. At a
- minimum you should check each of the recipient with a SHOW FORW/USER=
- command in VMS MAIL and see if forwarding is set for any of them.
-
- Finally, if you have installed a new version of VMS or VAX PSI you may have
- introduced some bugs into VMS MAIL. Please indicate if you have done this.
-
- Send the results of all this to service@innosoft.com. (This is not a topic of
- any real interest to the info-pmdf list.) I'm still betting on a line length
- problem.
-
- Ned
-
-