[Info-vax] Missing SMTP queue(s)

[Steven Schweda]

> there are some obscure warnings regarding the SET CONFIG SMTP commands
> [...]

   I believe that the only "SET CONFIG SMTP commands" on any of these
systems came from TCPIP$CONFIG.COM.  I can check, but I suspect that
their configurations are all very similar.  Only my main system, ITS,
gets any SMTP access from the outside world.  ITS normally runs
continuously; other nodes are transients.

> Also note that the queue names seem to have changed in TCPIP V5.7
> (from TCPIP$SMTP_node_01 to ..._1)

   I assumed that the names like "_01" were old/obsolete, and I'm
willing to delete them, but I didn't want to make more changes than
necessary while investigating the main problem, namely, that "TCPIP
START MAIL" on node "IT" causes problems on other nodes with
similar-and-longer names, "IT*".

   Note that years ago, when IT (a zx2000) got some actual use (and was
running VMS V8.3-1H1 and TCPIP V5.6), I never saw any such trouble.

   Knowing nothing (except the observed behavior), my guess would be
that "TCPIP START MAIL" first deletes all the old stuff it can find, and
then creates the desired new stuff.  And the problem is that the
difference between "_<node>*" and "_<node>_*" is causing it to find and
delete too much old stuff, _if_ you use an unlucky set of node names.

  Still looks to me like a bug.