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Re: SMTP implementation in KA9Q

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From: Graham E Kinns
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <821639437snz@wash.demon.co.uk>,
           John Washington <john@wash.demon.co.uk> wrote

 [domain trace on]

>Fascinating output it generates.  I quite often get
>a message length -1 errno 17 generated, just curious
>as to what that might mean.  Seems to keep working tho.

It's just the timeout waiting for a response from one server - it should 
go on and try another one, if you have more than one listed.

>And I'm quite surprised at the amount of activity.
>If I understand the trace (which I probably don't),
>e.g. it goes out and asks about news.demon.co.uk,
>resolving it to news.news.demon.net -- I would have
>expected such info to be picked up from domain.txt.

It looks like the entries for news.demon are set to expire every 24 
hours, so it should fetch them once a day anyway.

Cheers,

      Graham.
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From: Graham E Kinns <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1996/01/15
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