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[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi to all

Has any one found a bug between HP-UX and Winoze Exchange where if message body size is 1008 byte (the dfxxxx file in /var/spool/mqueue) then exchange server will not accept the mail from the unix server.

All my other mail is going out from the server but not the 1008 byte message body ones.

Fixes and suggestions welcome.

PS I am stuck with exchange.

N Class server
11.00
What Sendmail
alias.c 8.73 (Berkeley) 5/8/97
arpadate.c 8.7 (Berkeley) 2/1/97
clock.c 8.24 (Berkeley) 4/19/97
collect.c 8.69 (Berkeley) 5/29/97
conf.c 8.362 (Berkeley) 6/14/97
$Id: getloadavg.c,v 1.16 1991/06/21 12:51:15 paul Exp $
convtime.c 8.9 (Berkeley) 2/1/97
daemon.c 8.175 (Berkeley) 6/1/97 (with daemon mode)
deliver.c 8.282 (Berkeley) 6/11/97
domain.c 8.67 (Berkeley) 4/9/97 (with name server)
envelope.c 8.104 (Berkeley) 6/3/97
err.c 8.62 (Berkeley) 6/5/97
headers.c 8.110 (Berkeley) 6/14/97
macro.c 8.18 (Berkeley) 2/1/97
sendmail.h 8.236 6/5/97
main.c 8.246 (Berkeley) 6/11/97
Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
map.c 8.168 (Berkeley) 6/14/97
mci.c 8.62 (Berkeley) 5/29/97
mime.c 8.59 (Berkeley) 5/6/97
parseaddr.c 8.128 (Berkeley) 6/14/97
queue.c 8.169 (Berkeley) 6/14/97 (with queueing)
readcf.c 8.196 (Berkeley) 5/29/97
recipient.c 8.130 (Berkeley) 5/29/97
safefile.c 8.12 (Berkeley) 6/14/97
savemail.c 8.110 (Berkeley) 4/7/97
srvrsmtp.c 8.146 (Berkeley) 6/11/97 (with SMTP)
stab.c 8.13 (Berkeley) 4/19/97
stats.c 8.11 (Berkeley) 4/9/97
sysexits.c 8.7 (Berkeley) 2/1/97
trace.c 8.6 (Berkeley) 2/1/97
udb.c 8.51 (Berkeley) 5/29/97 (with USERDB)
usersmtp.c 8.87 (Berkeley) 6/3/97 (with SMTP)
util.c 8.129 (Berkeley) 6/11/97
version.c 8.8.6.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/97 (PHNE_17190)
rec_seq.c 8.3 (Berkeley) 7/14/94

Paula

[Bill Hassell]

What is the error meesage returned by the Exchange server? It might actually be an anti-spam or anti-virus setting in Exchange that needs refinement (ie, not all messages that are exactly 1008 bytes long are spam).

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Bill

The message in the mailq is :-

(Deferred: 451 Timeout waiting for client input)


Paula

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Paula,

Are we talking Exchange 5.5 or 2000 ?

Have you captured one of these messages and added a character to the df file - does it then send OK?

Rgds, Robin.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Robin
Running 2000, I had thought of changing the body size but was holding off during the investigation phase.

I will now change one of the held mails.

Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Robin

Tried that - still did not send.

I have nine jobs all of 1008 bytes in size sent over a 4 day period and all not going.

These jobs are sent by scripted routine and others are going and these not.

Common elements are:-
Same sender
Same recipient
Same size on message body

Paula

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Paula,

Sorry, just to clarify this - does the script generate other different sized messages, or are these 1008-byte messages unique to this script?

Rgds, Robin.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Robin

The script justs checks how many of a particular user ar logged in and sends that info in body of email.

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND
anite 23047 22068 0 21:42:08 pts/tJ 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 21752 21146 2 21:41:20 pts/tD 0:06 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 25078 23827 0 21:43:26 pts/tN 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 22898 22013 0 21:42:05 pts/tI 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 25293 24949 0 21:43:46 pts/tP 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 22549 22005 0 21:42:02 pts/tH 0:04 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 22215 21885 0 21:41:54 pts/tG 0:04 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 21729 20948 0 21:41:16 pts/tC 0:07 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 23065 22070 0 21:42:10 pts/tK 0:04 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 5520 4495 0 21:49:06 pts/ta 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 20329 19827 0 21:40:15 pts/tv 0:08 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 22106 21843 0 21:41:49 pts/to 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 25100 24294 0 21:43:29 pts/tO 0:04 /universe/uv/bin/uv
anite 23657 23342 0 21:42:47 pts/tL 0:03 /universe/uv/bin/uv


This is one that is stuck.

Paula

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Paula,

Have the qf files got a single dot as the last line?

Robin

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Robin

Yes they have !!

It will be somthing very silly we we find the answer.


;^)

Paula