[H-GEN] Mail problems

Michael Anthon mca at tams.com.au
Wed Jul 7 22:44:05 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au>)

Anyone got a sharp blade?

The address that was causing the error this morning and that I was using for
a test just started to work correctly again.  I will have to wait until yet
another message fails before I can do any further debugging.

Paul, I know you like perl, but it's much easier to use tcpdump to capture
the traffic 8^).  MSES is definitely sending the . to terminate the message,
although it is not *quite* RFC compliant I think.  I am told (although have
not verified it myself) that the RFC specifies <LF>.<LF> as the DATA
termination string, MSES is (of course) sending <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>, which
works quite happily anyway (otherwise we would never get ANY mail out).

I tried sending a message to the humbug server manually yesterday and got
the same sort of result I am seeing from the MSES server (ie no "250"
message).  Unfortunately, on my second attempt to verify this, everything
started working correctly again so it could have been a typing error or
something on my part.  I *really* hate non-deterministic bugs.

Cheers
Michael "waiting for another error" Anthon

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