mail from SUN to Symbolics

[Richard Kasperski]

Help!!!

When I mail a message across the ethernet from a SUN to a Symbolics
the SMTP mailer on the SUN hangs while waiting for a reply to the
HELO message. It appears that the Symbolics never sends the appropriate
reply. However when a message is send from the Symbolics to the SUN
the transferal is succesful. This leads me to believe that the problem
is not with the Symbolics mailer but rather with the mailer on the
SUN( I have other evidence that points this way ).

On the net a while ago was a mail message about the 4.2 mailer not always
adhering to the SMTP standard. Something to do with not terminating lines
in the correct way? In an attempt to test this I have run the mailer with
the -ba ( arpanet mode ) which is supposed to terminate lines correctly.

We run the sendmail configuration file that was supplied to us by SUN
with modifications to the address translation scheme to handle our local
network of machines. The effect of these modifications can be ignored because
the machines only set up the communication path but never send any information
across it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Richard Kasperski
Alberta Research Council
Calgary, Alberta
...{ alberta }!calgary!arcsun!kasper

PS. Asking for help when you feel you've missed the obvious is humbling!!!