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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problem with DECnet mailer -- long To: lines
Message-ID: <894@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 13:09:20 GMT
References: <886@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> <1158@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Organization: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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>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.

I was informed by someone at DEC that this is a known problem with the mail
software on VMS.  Apparently, when an Ultrix mailer is talking to a VMS mailer,
the VMS side identifies itself as being an Ultrix mailer and therefore thinks
the long To: lines are ok.  The VMS side gets it and barfs.  Sigh....

I'm going to file an SPR on this as soon as I get five minutes.
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This is STILL the Al Franken Decade.....