Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!HMCVAX!NED From: NED@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU (Ned Freed, Postmaster) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l Subject: RE: Problems with DSMTP_SLAVE Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 90 12:18:00 GMT Sender: PMDF Distribution List Reply-To: PMDF Distribution List Lines: 20 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Errors-to: postmast@YMIR.BITNET X-Envelope-to: PMDF-L@IRLEARN.BITNET X-VMS-To: IN%"@MUDDCS.CLAREMONT.EDU:munnari!ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au!C.H.Chaundy @uunet.UU.NET " X-VMS-Cc: IPMDF X-To: "munnari!ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au!C.H.Chaundy" , INFO-PMDF@YMIR I did a lot of rewriting in PMDF V3.1 (especially in the SMTP module) to clean up the handling of long records. PMDF V3.1 should now comply with the line lengths recommended in RFC821. This may have had the effect of flushing some subtle bugs (and hopefully not introducing new ones). Insurmountable problems still exist in header line processing when VMS MAIL is involved. VMS MAIL does not limit the lengths of its header lines, but if it is using MAIL-11, that does (to 250 characters, more or less). The result is forced truncation of the header lines VMS MAIL sees. There is no way to avoid this. Even worst restrictions apply to BITNET BSMTP. Line length restrictions can really mess up BSMTP commands and cause message delivery failures. There was a proposed scheme for folding long lines in BITNET mail (it came up on MAIL-L, I think), but I do not know if this scheme ever made it past the recommendation stage. Does anybody know whether or not any other mailers support command/header folding (it involved putting some funny EBCDIC character in column 80, or something like that) ??? Ned