Problem with DECnet mailer -- long To: lines
Leonard J. Peirce
peirce at gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Thu Oct 19 23:09:20 AEST 1989
>The problem may be that the To: line in MAIL-11 is written as a single record
>over DECNet, and is therefore can be no longer than 512 bytes. The mail11v3
>program should (but perhaps is not) truncating To: lines longer than this.
I was informed by someone at DEC that this is a known problem with the mail
software on VMS. Apparently, when an Ultrix mailer is talking to a VMS mailer,
the VMS side identifies itself as being an Ultrix mailer and therefore thinks
the long To: lines are ok. The VMS side gets it and barfs. Sigh....
I'm going to file an SPR on this as soon as I get five minutes.
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Western Michigan University peirce at gw.wmich.edu
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This is STILL the Al Franken Decade.....
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