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From: moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problem with DECnet mailer -- long To: lines
Message-ID: <1158@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 89 18:53:35 GMT
References: <886@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
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Organization: CS Dept -- University of TN, Knoxville
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In article <886@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) writes:
>Some people here receive mail that have rather long To: lines, either
>from individuals or small mailing lists.  The mail comes into our Ultrix
>gateway (3.0) which then attempts to send it over DECnet to our VAXcluster.
>
>The problem is that the long To: lines make the DECnet mailer barf.
>The message I get is
>
>   Deferred: Lost connection to remote node while confirming delivery
>
>When I edit the qf file and shorten the To: line, it delivers just fine.

The problem may be that the To: line in MAIL-11 is written as a single record 
over DECNet, and is therefore can be no longer than 512 bytes.  The mail11v3
program should (but perhaps is not) truncating To: lines longer than this.
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