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1 total messages Started by Mel Byrne Thu, 06 Aug 1992 12:31

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Author: Mel Byrne
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 12:31

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Hello Folks,

We have an IBM RT running the fully-updated AIX 2.2.1 here at the
RPII.  I had hoped to give the machine a graceful semi-retirement by
using it to handle our e-mail and news exchanges with the outside
world.  Everything seems to be honky-dory on the news front, but we
are having severe problems when we try to transmit mail from the RT
using SMTP over our LAN. The receiving SMTP agent is the Charon 3.4
Novell <-> SMTP gateway program.

The problem is this: e-mail messages larger than about 1.5 Kbytes
don't get through. It appears as if the RT <-> Charon SMTP connection
is completely hung. E-mail messages smaller than about 1.5 Kbytes
experience no problem and are delivered down to our Novell network.
E-mail messages going from Charon to the RT are delivered with no
problems, regardless of their size.

I suspect the RT is causing the problem because I also experience
similar difficulties FTPing files from the RT using a couple of
different PC-based FTP programs. FTPing from my PC to the RT presents
no problems.

If anyone has seen these problems (or similar ones) could you please
contact me by e-mail at the address below.

Thank you,

Mel Byrne (mel@rpii.ie).

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