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Re: smtp problem: remote protocol error: bad file number

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From: Steve Elias
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 11:35
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lindberg@cs.chalmers.se (Gunnar Lindberg) writes:
!In article <3074@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM! eli@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM
!!if anyone has any idea as to what i could do to fix the above error, 
!
!As cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig F. Everhart) replies, the "bad file
!number" message is rather misleading, but look at the other message,
!"remote protocol error". It could be that the machine tries to talk
!"sendmail-smtp", using only <LF! (or <NL! in UNIX terms) instead of
!the RFC821-required <CR!<LF! as line terminator. We've had this
!problem when talking to DEC20/TOPS20 machines, e.g. SRI-NIC.ARPA.
!
!Fix in sendmail.cf:
!
!    Mether, P=[IPC], E=\r\n, F=mDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h
!		     ^^^^^^

	Steve Dyer (root@spdcc.com) tells me that his sendmail.cf
	already says "E=rn"...  are the backslashes important???
	(silly question -- every character in sendmail.cf is important!)
	...  the problem continues  ... 

-- 
   Steve Elias (eli@spdcc.com);(6172399406)
     "Space is small.  The planets are big." -- Heinlein
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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: smtp problem:  remote protocol error: bad file number
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Date: 25 Apr 89 11:35:14 GMT
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