From: <dongray@genrad.com>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Re: Protocol errors between Vaxcluster?
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 03:10:23 -0400
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My problem must be something to do with timing; e.g. SMTP sever being swapped
out and not waking up fast enough for the sender? I tried "telnet cdclu2 25"
from an Ultrix machine and got ...

dongray brandy>telnet cdclu2 25
Trying 128.1.0.42...
Connected to cdclu2.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
dongray brandy>^[
telnet cdclu2 25
Trying 128.1.0.42...
Connected to cdclu2.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 cd4201 MX V3.1C SMTP server ready at Fri, 02 Oct 1992 08:01:59 BST
quit
221 cd4201 Service closing transmission channel.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I then ran MCP and issued a QUEUE READY command for the message which has been
retrying for nearly two days... and it's now delivered it!

Has anyone else seen this sort of problem?

 2-OCT-1992 08:07:45.78 Processing queue entry number 3666 on node CD4000
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:46.04   Recipient: <davey@CDCLU2>, route=CDCLU2
[...lines deleted...]
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:46.05   Recipient: <williamsi@CDCLU2>, route=CDCLU2
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:46.05   SMTP_SEND: looking up host name CDCLU2
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:46.18   SMTP_SEND: Attempting to start session with CDCLU2
 [128.1.0.42]
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:46.20   SMTP_SEND: Connected
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.04   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 220 cdmv22 MX V3.1C SMTP server ready
 at Fri, 02 Oct 1992 08:07:47 BST
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.08   SMTP_SEND: Sent: HELO CD4000
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.58   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 Hello, CD4000
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.59   SMTP_SEND: Sent: MAIL FROM:<system@cdclu1>
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.84   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 MAIL command accepted.
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.84   SMTP_SEND: Sent: RCPT TO:<davey@CDCLU2>
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:47.87   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 Recipient okay (at least in form)
[...lines deleted...]
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:48.36   SMTP_SEND: Sent: RCPT TO:<williamsi@CDCLU2>
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:48.39   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 Recipient okay (at least in form)
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:48.48   SMTP_SEND: Sent: DATA
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.38   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 354 Start mail input; end with
 <crlf>.<crlf>
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.38   SMTP_SEND: Sent: Errors-To: system@cdclu1
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.38   SMTP_SEND: Sent: X-ListName: Company Distribution List
 <Company@cdclu1>
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.38   SMTP_SEND: Sent: Received: by cdclu1 (MX V3.1C) id
 3662; Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:00:23 BST
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.38   SMTP_SEND: Sent: Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:00:16 BST
[...lines deleted...]
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.42   SMTP_SEND: Sent: .
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:49.42   SMTP_SEND: will wait 00:18:00.00 for reply.
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.22   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 Message received and queued.
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.22   SMTP_SEND: Sent: QUIT
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.25   SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 221 cdmv22 Service closing
 transmission channel
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.35   Recipient status=00000001 for <davey@CDCLU2>
[...lines deleted...]
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.36   Recipient status=00000001 for <williamsi@CDCLU2>
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.46   Entry now completely processed, no retries needed.
 2-OCT-1992 08:07:51.62 *** End of processing pass ***

Of course, the log shows that it used a different node to receive the message
from the one I 'woke up'. So my 'swapped-out' idea looks like a non-starter!

I'd still like clues as to why this happens, as it isn't the first time and
doubtless won't be the last!
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