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In article <1993Jan25.145527.11506@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
=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

Now, wait a minute.  The SMTP Server process only deals with INCOMING mail.
If the same thing happened 15 minutes later, it means the SENDING machine is
screwed up.  Your machine complained of an invalid address, but the remote
machine insisted on retrying the mail.  Could you clarify your claim?
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organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.