rganesh@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Ganesh Rangarajan) (12/06/90)
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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ganesh Rangarajan System Support Group Dept. of Computer Science Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl 32306 (904)-644-2296/7339 E-Mail: rganesh@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Internet) ganesh@fsu (Bitnet) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------