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Missing manditory <CR>?




We're running into some problems with siren mail when users try to
send to an ill-fromed address of the form <username>@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Mark Crispin of UW (writer of pine's c-client)  claims:

  I found the problem.  It's a bug in ZMailer's SMTP server.

  The response message comes back as:
          501-5.5.2 ^<LF>501 5.5.2 Path data: Should this be...
  instead of
          501-5.5.2 ^<CR><LF>501 5.5.2 Path data: Should this be...

  Since the mandatory CR is missing, my code sees it all as one line, and 
  it's waiting for a non-continuation line which never comes.
  Thanks for telling me the identity of the SMTP server.  I used it as 
  part of my testing.  I suspected that this was the problem, but the 
  test confirmed it.


We're running zmailer 2.99.38 on an IBM SP2 running AIX 4.1

Thanks,
--Eric Riehl