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In article <838398667snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" wrote:

>And meanwhile I've confirmed this is indeed the cause of my
>problem.  In fact the 900K mail was a red herring.  Another
>much shorter mail (from jobsite) contained a line of precisely
>257 characters (including the final \n) and the last char
>before the \n was '.'.

Can you post your patch, please?  I'm happy with straight diff(1)
format, I don't know if everyone understands that.  Perhaps a context
diff for those who have already hacked the source of the module...

>Thanks, didn't know that.  And thanks to Borland for giving
>us the RTL source, something I've several times been grateful
>for, and a feature that would strongly bias me against rival
>vendors that don't.

Definitely.  They provided it free with my copy of 3.1, but not with
4.02, then free again (on the CD) with 4.5.  Incidentally, has anyone
got net.exe to run using BC++ 4.02 or 4.5?  I can only get it to work
using 3.1, I suspect some change in the stack structure in the later
versions or something like that...

>Thanks also to Demon.  As a result of these shenanigans I
>noticed that punt eventually started up another smtpserv
>at my end FOR THE MAIL STACKED BEHIND THE BIGGIE.  I had
>always imagined that multiple servers were only handling
>the mail from different punts, and that each punt took
>mail only off the head of its queue.  Not so.  BRILLIANT,
>Demon, thanks.

Fascinating, I'd assumed that as well.  Presumably this starts up after
the 15 minute or whatever retry timer?

>Quite.  I wouldn't be happy ack'ing it until it was in a real
>file, not RAM or an unnamed file.  After that, I feel equally
>exposed to the ball-bearings dropping out of my Winnie, whether
>the mail is in its final resting place or an intermediate file.

I agree.  Putting it in ~/spool/rqueue would seem to work for me, if
doing that didn't screw up the alias file processing.  At least, I think
it does, it seemed to when I tried it.

>Fortunately nobody sends me digital money by email.  Hmm, scratch
>that.  Make it unfortunately.  :-)

I can send you a scanned picture of a fiver if you like <g>.  Well, I
could if I had a scanner <g>...

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