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From: montrose@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: sendmail
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Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 11:04:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  2 11:04:38 1987
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Summary: When sending mail from a 320 running ARPA v5.171 to an IBM 4300 running TCP/IP ARPA services mail works about 20% of the time. Anyone else experience this problem???


I have a LAN with HP9000s, 1000s and an IBM4300 connected together. The IBM
is running their TCP/IP software using their DACU device. I can send mail
find from the IBM to the HPs, and between the HP9000s (someday it will be
available for the 1000s -sigh-). But when I send mail from the HP9000s to
the CMS machine it works about 1/6 times. I can use the quote command in FTP
attach manually to the sendmail socket on the IBM and manually emulate sendmail
and that works fine. The IBM is apparently getting a packet it doesn't 
expect; replying with a message like "Command "" not recognized". Looking
at the packet dumps I see an extra packet being sent from the HP just before
the error occurs.

Has anyone else used sendmail over the LAN between HPs and someone else's
computer?? My SE has referred this problem to the Labs, but they aren't
too interested in solving this since "IBMs are a non standard connection".
(I thought that is why I got a LAN in the first place, to connect different
computers together).

I would be interested in any other connects like this, did they work, or
some somebody in HP know how to make it work???
 
thanks, Rod Montrose
        Motorola, Ft. Worth TX (817) 232-6383