Re: SFF problem with VSI on Integrity?

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.

Problem identified.  There was an incorrect parameter in the TCPIP$SMTP.CONF file.  At some point in the past year someone had turned on SMTP debugging, including adding a SYMBIONT-DEBUG.  When they finished, instead of deleting or commenting that line out they set the parameter to FALSE.    But its supposed to be a bit map with a value of 0 through 8.
That generated the error but without useful context.  We found it when booting their disaster recovery server with 6 month old system disk copy didn't produce the error until we specifically updated that .conf file to current.
VSI may take a look at the issue (of error message context) in their 6.0 stack.
Thanks to all who replied.