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

[Richard Jordan]

On 8/7/24 3:13 AM, Oswald Knoppers wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 14:49:38 -0500, Richard Jordan wrote:
> 
>> I have contacted VSI but thought I'd ask here too.  If anyone can give
>> this a try and let me know if they experience the problem I'd appreciate
>> knowing.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Does sending mail to a smtp% address using the mail command work? I have
> seen errors using sff caused by errors in the smtp config (tcpip show
> config smtp).
> 
> Oswald
> 
> 

Yes, and that is done all the time for text reports and status emails. 
The customer wants to both add a reply-to header and optionally handle 
non-text files as attachments which sendmail is perfect for.  The issue 
is using SFF, not anything in the SMTP subsystem as far as we can tell.

Rich