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In article <1486@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> jmm@skivs.ski.org writes:
>Has anyone noticed the following bug in the version of mailx distributed
>with RTU-3.1A: When a message is sent to an internet address, eg:

Sorry, but I didn't notice this when we were running 3.1 or now under
4.0, but I have noticed another interesting mail bug I could use help
with...

Our sendmail seems to periodically get confused while recieving SMTP
mail, but instead of reporting its error to a log file or the console,
if writes it back out over the network connection, causing the other
end to think an error has occured. Note that the mail IS received
normally - the message is just a warning.

The end result is that the other end assumes mail has failed since
it detected a SMTP protocol error - i.e. rtu has messed up, and will
retry after some time-delay. This means that the masscomp user recieves
a copy of the letter on a regular basis (say every 1/2 hour) for days
(until sendmail is restarted).

Our sysop has no idea what is causing this; in fact there seems to be
no obvious trigger that starts sendmail on this death spin!

So, has anyone else seen this problem? The network gurus here claim
that RTU is violating the STMP and tcp/ip protocols by reporting
errors to the network socket (instead of a logfile); they say masscomp
should fix it.

Thanks for any help,
/Jamie
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In response to the recent postings about problems with the unsupported
versions of sendmail that were available from Masscomp (which often 
appear as bugs in mail or mailx to users):

Concurrent (the new company) has finaly (after an excessive delay) begun
to ship release 1.0 of RT-MAIL. This is MH and MMDF with the HM user
interface. You have to be running RTU-4.0 to install RT-MAIL.

>From the users perspective, it offers a much better interface with
many options for user-specific and site-specific adaptation. From the
system managment perspective, one need not be an M4 adept to install or
modifiy the delivery layers.

There will be sessions at the upcomming Masscomp Users Socitey annual
meeting on MMDF, so make your plans now.


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