sam@ccsn2.uucp (Sam Moore) (10/18/89)
Has anyone dealt with the problem with DECNET mailers not accepting messages with To: and Cc: lines greater than 255 characters. The release notes for DECNET Ultrix say to use a sendmail alias to deal with the problem. They must be assuming the mailing list that generates the long line is local. This is not the case for me. I have mailing lists coming from other sites to my brain dead DECNET machines. Sam
moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) (10/18/89)
In article <4217@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> sam@ccsn2.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore) writes: > >Has anyone dealt with the problem with DECNET mailers not accepting >messages with To: and Cc: lines greater than 255 characters. The >release notes for DECNET Ultrix say to use a sendmail alias to deal >with the problem. They must be assuming the mailing list that generates >the long line is local. This is not the case for me. I have mailing >lists coming from other sites to my brain dead DECNET machines. > >Sam Yeah. I wrote my own DECnet mail gateway. My version truncates all DECnet header lines to 512 characters, which seemed to be sufficient. It's easily changed to 255 if necessary. Since these fields are essentially comment fields to the DEC mailers, there's no harm in truncating them. The code is free. Anonymous ftp to cs.utk.edu, directory readonly/mail11, files mail11.shar and mail11d.shar . -- Keith Moore Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu University of Tenn. CS Dept. BITNET: moore@utkvx 107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus UT Decnet: utkcs::moore Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 Telephone: +1 615 974 0822
peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (10/19/89)
In article <4217@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> sam@ccsn2.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore) writes: > >Has anyone dealt with the problem with DECNET mailers not accepting >messages with To: and Cc: lines greater than 255 characters? This is a known problem with the DECnet mailer on the VMS side. I'm going to submit an SPR as soon as I get time. I posted something about this to comp.unix.ultrix (which is where follow-ups are directed). ----- Leonard J. Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computer Center UUCP: ...!uunet!sharkey!wmichgw!peirce Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Phone: (616) 387-5469 This is STILL the Al Franken Decade.....