Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

How do you import/export batch SMTP files from/to sendmail?

0 views
Skip to first unread message

Donald A. Borsay

unread,
Jul 13, 1987, 2:22:13 PM7/13/87
to

Here in the Software Development Lab, we have PMDF on our VAX/VMS
systems and sendmail/smail on our UNIX BSD systems. Within PMDF circles,
the BN_MASTER and TEST_SMTP_SLAVE implementations were slightly modified
producing BSMTP_MASTER and BSMTP_SLAVE. This channel attempts to
handle Batch-SMTP style mail.

All seems to work good, when a BSMTP_MASTER sends to a BSMTP_SLAVE.
The problem is when I try to import this to a UNIX BSD 4.2 sendmail
system. Sendmail doesn't seem to like what looks like a perfectly good
SMTP packet. The input packet is:

HELO cdfq.RAY.COM
MAIL FROM:<D2B@cdfq>
RCPT TO:<user@sads>
DATA
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 87 18:00 EST
From: "Don Borsay, RAYtheon Submarine Signal" <D2B@cdfq>
Subject: This is a Batch-SMTP packet
To: user@sads
X-VMS-To: in%"user@sads"

This packet it output of the BSMTP channel, from the MASTER side.
The BSMTP_SLAVE can inport this on the remote node, entering it into the
PMDF mail system.
.
QUIT

I get output from sendmail similar to the following:

220 rayssd.RAY.COM Sendmail 4.12/1.3/2.2/3.19A ready at Sat, 11 Jul 87 23:56:27 edt
250 rayssd.RAY.COM Hello cdfq.RAY.COM, pleased to meet you
250 <D2B@cdfq>... Sender ok
250 <user@sads>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
250 Ok
250 <user@sads>... Recipient ok
503 Need MAIL command
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
500 Command unrecognized
221 rayssd.RAY.COM closing connection

If anyone knows how to get sendmail to accept (and generate) a standard
SMTP packet, batch style, please send me mail. Thanks in advance.

Don |Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI
Borsay |ARPAnet: d2b%rayssd....@a.cs.uiuc.edu
|UUCPmail: {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus!raybed2}!rayssd!d2b
--
Don |Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI
Borsay |ARPAnet: d2b%rayssd....@a.cs.uiuc.edu
|UUCPmail: {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus!raybed2}!rayssd!d2b

0 new messages