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#369

Author: daveh
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:55

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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
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daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk              |  ridiculous"

Re: SMTP Server error status=20EC

#371

Author: Carl J Lydick
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:28

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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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