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Subject: Re: SFF problem with VSI on Integrity?
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 06:59:45 -0500
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On 8/6/24 2:49 PM, 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.
> 
> I don't have any other systems to test on (specifically no other VSI 
> systems).
> 
> Thanks for any info.

Do you get anything interesting from:

$ MCR TCPIP$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_SFF.EXE sys$input: -log sys$error: -loglevel 1
....
^Z

?