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Hi,

We hit a problem with the MX SMTP Server today. It received a message with an
invalid address from our campus mailer, and instead of aborting the message in a
tidy way it just rejected the message with status 20EC. This left the mailer
thinking that the message had not been sent, so it requeued the message and
tried to send it again 15 minutes later, when the same thing happened on the
VAX.

This is a portion of the SMTP Server log file:

STM[4]: Receive "MAIL FROM:<@jnt.ac.uk,@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+
STM[4]: Send "501 Invalid address: <@jnt.ac.uk,@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk,@[+JANET.JNT],@gec-b.rutherford.a
STM[4]: Error: status=20EC

We are running MX 3.1C and VMS V5.5-1.

Is this a known error, and if so is there a patch for it?

Thanks in advance,

Dave


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David Hastings                      | "The technical axiom that nothing is
VAX Systems Programmer              |  impossible sinisterly conditions one to
Oxford University Computing Services|  the pitfall corollary that nothing is
daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk              |  ridiculous"