[Info-vax] %MAIL-E-INVITMLEN ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-03-01, Snowshoe <no at spam.please> wrote:
> Email sent to a VMS system is getting bounced with a message like the 
> following:
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:46:47 -0500 (EST)
> Message-Id: <12022919464727_422 at xxxxx.com>
> From: Postmaster at XXXXX.COM
> To: <original sender>
> Subject: Returned mail
>
>
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> %MAIL-E-INVITMLEN, invalid item length
>

Have you tried restarting your SMTP service on the machine in question ?

I've seen weird random problems in the past which required a SMTP restart
to fix.

[snip]

>
> What is this %MAIL-E-INVITMLEN error? Googling finds some _old_ 
> instances of this issue, but it appeared to have been fixed.  This 
> system is:
> HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Version V5.7 - ECO 1
> Is it back from the dead? Has HP fixed it (again)?
>

Try shutting down SMTP and restarting it. If that doesn't fix it, then
congratulations, you may have found another problem with the current
TCP/IP code base. :-)

As a workaround, if it's a permanent problem, try creating a distribution
list file for the destination email address.

Simon.

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