Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!MCC.COM!AI.CLIVE
From: AI.CLIVE@MCC.COM (Clive Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mail Delivery Problems
Message-ID: <12450534655.24.AI.CLIVE@MCC.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 88 00:29:32 GMT
References: <8811231833.AA14239@ncs.dnd.ca>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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Bob-
  I don't know if you've solved your problem with hung mail
connections yet, but here's something else you might try.  
Check to see if your mail delivery program is sending out
carriage return/ line feed pairs at the end of each SMTP command,
as specified in the standard, rather than just line feeds.  

Certain SMTP servers, TOPS-20's MAISER for one, will ignore
lone line feeds.

Good luck,

Clive
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