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

[JF Mezei]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

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


There is no such thing a a Mail 11 header. There are fields in the mail
database which include sender, recipients and subject.  For short
messages, the message content could also be stored in MAIL.MAI, but
generally, for internet messages, they are stored as separate files.

In your case, you should investigate whether the mail messages received
from the internet and processed by something else than SMTP Services
receiver and symbiont are:

1- stored as external files or stored inside the MAIL.MAI file
2- have proper record structure for the POP server to process
3- Have properly formatted RFC822 headers at the very top of the message
contents.




The pop server will synthethize an RFC822 header from the data in the
MAIL.MAI database if it has decided that the contents of the message do
not begin with a valid RFC822 header.

So the first step is to ensure that your message contents really do
begin with properly formatted RFC822 header text followed by a blank line.

And that means looking at the raw message files for record attributes as
well as loong at the contents with an editor or even dump to ensure they
are correct.



If the SMTP service is defined but not started, it is quite possible
that when the POP server uses the internal TCPIP$mumble system services
to obtain config info, that it is given empty response or default values
instead of given the data from the services database.