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From: rganesh@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Ganesh Rangarajan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.65 and Bad File Number
Message-ID: <9012060746.AA03565@nu.cs.fsu.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 07:46:56 GMT
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Posted-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 02:46:56 -0500
To: comp-mail-sendmail@cs.utexas.edu

Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Florida State University

(karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu) writes:
>At a guess, and only that, you are not using E=\r\n (or -ba) with
>sendmail.  RFC821 requires that lines be terminated with <cr><nl>, not
>just <nl> as is the UNIX habit.  If you're not specifying the proper
>sequence, the VMS host may simply be waiting for you to finish typing
>your HELO statement at it, and wondering why it's taking your host so
>bloody long to do so.  Your sendmail, on the other hand, believing
   This is what I thought initially.  The mail gets hung on the message
Data Read.  In other words, it passes through HELO, MAIL FROM: and the
RCPT TO: and for small files, vms/vm machines accept the body fine.  Its
only on the longer files that there is a data read error and the mail
gets hung up (as a Bad File Number).

-Ganesh
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  Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl 32306  (904)-644-2296/7339
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