[Info-vax] SFF problem with VSI on Integrity?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/6/2024 3:49 PM, Richard Jordan wrote:
> Integrity server, VMS V8.4-2L1, TCPIP V5.7 eco 5 with any later hotfixes 
> as of June 2023 applied.
> 
> V8.4-2L3 is coming but I can't install it to check for a while.
> 
> We use the 'sendmail.com' freeware to send email with binary attachments 
> (mostly PDFs) with customized SMTP headers.  On this VSI system we get a 
> single error every time we run SFF from the command procedure.
> 
> Exact same procedure on a V8.3 Alpha and an HP V8.4 Integrity run 
> without error so we're tentatively calling it a VSI issue.
> 
> Every run using symbol form via
> 
>       sff :== $SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_SFF.EXE
> 
> (as defined within sendmail.com)
> 
> generates the following error, but also still creates the email 
> successfully:
> 
>       %LIB-F-INVNBDS, invalid numeric byte data string
> 
> Happens with any normal or priv'd account, regardless of the body text 
> file, presence or absence of attachments, who the recipient is, presence 
> or absence of a subject line.

Some LIB$ functions can return that (I looked at LIB$CVT_DX_DX).

<quote>
LIB$_INVNBDS

Invalid NBDS. There is an invalid character in the input, or the value 
is outside the range that can be represented by the destination, or the 
NMDS descriptor is invalid. This error is also signaled when the array 
size of an NBDS is larger than 65,535 bytes or the array is 
multi-dimensional.
</quote>

But the relevance for email is not obvious to me.

Arne