[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <4f54344b$0$28792$c3e8da3$f48d872 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, I played around and started the SMTP server.  Not completely,
>> however, as I'm running MX% for my SMTP server. 
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>You should have mentioned this first. This makes a huge difference.
>
>If the SMTP service was defined but not started, then the POP server
>might not have seen that config with TOP_HEADERS which explains the
>error message.

The documentation says it only need to be configured with TOP_HEADERS.
If POP need to know that, then it can read the config file.  This has
been running here for years like that and I never needed to have the
TCPIP Services SMTP server running.


>And if you are not running the HP software to receive messages (aka:
>using MX), then the formatting of incoming emails  would have been done
>by MX and not VMS software, so any breaking of RFC822 heders would have
>been done by MX and not HP software.

No.


>And it REALLY is necessary to look at the actual contents of the .MAIL
>file to see if there is anything odd about the message which will cause
>the POP server to ignore the actual RFC822 header and synthetize its own
>from the mail headers.

It's not IGNORING the RFC822 header.  It's not removing the MAIL-11
header.

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