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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

3679.0. "fetcher loops when no addressee?" by KAOFS::M_BARNEY (Dance with a Moonlit Knight) Fri Dec 17 1993 19:16

    My customer has found a mail message that has come through the PMDF
    gateway (X400) from CC:MAIL to message router. Message router handled
    it well, but the A1 fetcher looped when it got the message for 2
    reasons
    
	a) it was a distribution list with a number of addressees,
	b) it seems to have lost both the subject line and the addressee line
	   in the header.

    He finds that if he renames the .NBS file the fetcher clears up.
    (his ALL-IN-1 version is 3.0-1)
    
    Somehow it managed to get delivered to a addressee (which was not
    specified) and the addressee did not recognize it as theirs. They also
    were notified that with the following "message damaged during
    transfer". This recipient seemed almost to be randomly chosen by the
    fetcher.

    The customer has come across only a few of these messages that hang the
    fetcher. Although he cannot be sure that they all originated in the
    same place, he is concerned that the fetcher is not robust enough to
    cope with these damaged headers, and continues to loop when
    encountering them.
    
    Is looping for an empty addressee field common?
    
    I'm just looking for thoughts, ideas on this......
    
    Monica


    
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3679.1Not a lot of help or ideas from meAIMTEC::WICKS_AWC94 Dream died when Bodin missedFri Dec 17 1993 19:3616
    monica,
    
    STARS offers many suggestions but all of them are answered as fixed in
    v2.4 or v3.0 - the one most similar to yours is entitled
    
    Message May Be Misdirected If Incoming NBS File Is Corrupt
    
    It may be time to dust off an SPR form since this does appear fairly
    serious.
    
    I haven't heard of any (that I remember) bad things happening with a
    v3.0 fetcher.         
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
3679.2thanksKAOFS::M_BARNEYDance with a Moonlit KnightFri Dec 17 1993 19:596
    Yes andrew, I'd seen that and thought - well this MUST be
    something different since it was a patch in V2.3.
    However, you are right, if its still around, maybe we should
    ring some bells...
    
    Monica