[Info-vax] %MAIL-E-INVITMLEN, invalid item length TCP/IP V5.7

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <a776dab7-9ec0-4929-ac35-20c323a62c73 at f33g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, Peter Weaver <info-vax at weaverconsulting.ca> writes:
>Looks like an old bug is back again.

It's new for me ;-)

>I have been running T5.7-3EAK1 on my V8.3 systems for some time with
>no problems. Today I upgraded to V5.7-13. I'll probably spend a few
>hours tonight restoring my backups. Since the upgrade I am seeing
>"%MAIL-E-INVITMLEN, invalid item length" appear in my SMTP logs with
>the emails being bounced. A quick search tells me that this bug was
>around in the 2003/2004 time frame having to do with mail being sent
>to addresses that have a SET FORWARD to another account. I have
>hundreds and hundreds of email addresses with SET FORWARD to a few
>real usernames. The interesting part is that two emails to the same
>address can have different results, one gets through and one gets
>INVITMLEN.
>
>I've been debating between restoring my backups or going to V8.4. Is
>anyone out there on V8.4 and V5.7 TCP/IP. If you are there then are
>you seeing INVITMLEN in your TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON:TCPIP$SMTP_node.LOG
>files?

I've been running V5.7-13ECO1 on V8.3 for some days/weeks now on my
testsystems and I haven't seen this so far (no till low mail volume, though).
Time for having a deeper look (but V8.4 is months/years away @office)


@home I still prefer MX (which also makes SMTP multi-platform - as I use
TCPware and only sometimes TCPIP - just as DCPS makes for printer queues)
and I upgrade to V8.4 in a couple of days/weeks...

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
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