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From: davel@george.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Liebreich)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: MH 6.7 Sendmail 5.64 SMTP error
Message-ID: <DAVEL.90Jul19165412@george.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Jul 90 23:54:12 GMT
Sender: news@amelia.nas.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA
Lines: 62


version: MH 6.7 #6[UCI] (myhost.domain) of Mon Jun 4 19:02:17 PDT 1990
options: [ATHENA] [ATZ] [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DUMB]
         [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [ISI] [MHE] [MHRC] [MSGPROT='"0600"']
         [RPATHS] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [SENDMTS] [SMTP]


Sendmail 5.64 + IDA 1.3.1 + minor patches.

Problem: (hostname and usernames changed)

> What now? send -snoop
> <= 220 myhost.domain Sendmail 5.64+/1.2 ready at Thu, 19 Jul 90 16:27:06 -
> 0700
> => MAIL FROM:<sender@myhost.domain>
> <= 250 <sender@myhost.domain>... Sender ok
> => RCPT TO:<recip1>
> <= 250 <recip1>... Recipient ok
> => RCPT TO:<recip2>
> <= 250 <recip2>... Recipient ok
> => RSET
> <= 250 Reset state
> => MAIL FROM:<sender@myhost.domain>
> <= 250 <sender@myhost.domain>... Sender ok
> => RCPT TO:<recip1>
> <= 250 <recip1>... Recipient ok
> => DATA
> <= 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> => .
> <= 250 Ok
> => RSET
> <= 250 Reset state
> => MAIL FROM:<sender@myhost.domain>
> <= 250 <sender@myhost.domain>... Sender ok
> => RCPT TO:<recip2>
> <= 250 <recip2>... Recipient ok
> => DATA
> <= 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> => .
> <= 250 Ok
> => QUIT
> <= 221 myhost.domain closing connection

When the first RSET is sent, sendmail responds with a mailer error -
no message received ('cause none was sent).  Looking at the code, I
assume that post is checking the return code of the RCPT TO's to
verify the addresses, then delivering the message with a "normal" SMTP
session.

Is this done on purpose, or am I missing something in the
configuration?

Dave
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