Conference utrop1::linkworks_v3

2232.0. "xmlisten - xmsend gives exit code 255" by BACHUS::BERVOETS (Luc Bervoets - CSC Brussels alive and kicking) Wed May 14 1997 13:10

Hello,

One of our customers has the following problem with Linkworks v3.0.8 OSF and
External mail and HTML.

He wants to enable the option for sending and receiving HTML attachements.

He receives the following error in xmproc.log

# tail xmproc.log

x400_add_attachment             =      304 (       0)
x400_add_attachment             at line  2348 (x400send.c 3.24 96/07/18)
x400_close_session
x400_submit_mail                =      304 (       0)
Wed May 14 10:12:55 1997: init LNX external mail import failed
Wed May 14 10:12:55 1997: xmlisten - xmsend gives exit code 255 (directory s73)


When you executing xmreg.sh you receive the following info

# ./xmreg.sh HTML
Registry: HTML  mail-bp 258
Send    : HTML  x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x82x02     (enabled)
Receive : HTML  x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x82x02     (disabled)
Receive : HTML  x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x82x02     (enabled)


In control.dat you will see the following info for this mail. 

# vi /ext*/out/e*/c*
"/extmail.dch/out/e72/control.dat" 20 lines, 396 characters 
MailID: 33786572747b
BEGIN TO
        Address: C=BE;A=IBMX400;P=Commercial Union;O=CUB;S=Roegiers;G=Wim
        Name: Wim Roegiers
        X-Mts: X400
        DeliveryNotification: No
        ReceiptNotification: No
        ReplyRequested: No
END
BEGIN Sender
  Ident: carolina
  Name: Jose Reyes

In recvtags.txt you find the following info

		...

 Obsolete OID's
#x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x81x1CXLC5
#x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x81x1EXLM5
#x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x81x79MSACCESS2Original OID
x2Bx0Cx02x87x73x05x01x82x02HTML

		...


Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks,

Luc.
  OrgUnit: Large Cl. (Large Claims Unit)
END
BEGIN Attachment
        File: 33786572747b.htm
        Type: HTML                                                             
        Class: text
        Name: Carolina WWW Link
END


    

Luc,

The information in .0 is somewhat messy (control.dat mixed with recvtags.txt 
info).  So deduction below is possibly based on wrong input.

The send operation fails since it wasn't able to find an OID given as input a 
format definition (see "Type:" field in attachment block) using sendtags.txt 
for the look-up.  When I use the control.dat input from .0 on my machine, 
evreything works fine (so HTML can be found).  When I change HTML into 
something which is not present in sendtags.txt, I get exactly the errors you 
mentioned in the xmproc.log file.  I achieved this by changing HTML into the 
string "HTML<CTRL-A>".  Since <CTRL-A> is a non-printable character, it could 
be easy overlooked.  In addition to the errors in the log file, I got a 
LinkWorks event telling that the (wrong) format could not be found.  The 
LinkWorks event message dispslayed the actual (wrong) format.

Another misleading piece of information in .0 is that the failure seems to 
occur when processing directory "s73" (as xmlisten tells in the log).  The 
information from control.dat seems to come from directory "e72" which 
originally (when xmsend is busy) is called "s72".  It doesn't line up.

Please check the actual definition of HTML in the LinkWorks dmformat table 
and check the actual contents of sendtags.txt

Regards, Berd Schimmel

    Hello,
    
    Berd.
    
    The problem is fixed. A incorrect character in the control.dat after
    the Type: HTML.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Regards,
    
    Luc.