Re: ANNOUNCE: VSoup version 1.2 for OS/2 Warp

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Mon, 07 Oct 1996 07:33:30 -0500

>On Mon, 07 Oct 1996 04:04:17 -0500, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
>> >On Sun, 06 Oct 1996 21:29:17 +0000, jim.holcomb@pobox.com (Jim Holcomb) wrote:
> :
>
>First, could you please quote correctly!? That way it is getting a
>little bit confusing, because Jim had nothing to do with the thread -
>or was the mistake on my side?

I'll try, sorry.

>> >As a temporary fix, you should remove the '-i' switch from your
>> >command line. In a future version there will be a command line option
>> >for telling VSoup the domain name.
>>
>> I don't understand, I was running v1.1beta with the '-i' switch, which
>> was ignored, but my %etc%\tcp???.ini file was 0 bytes. Where was it
>> getting the domain name from then?
>>
>> This is probably why I can't send mail with v1.2.
> :
>
>But have you tried my idea? To my understanding in VSoup1.1 hostName
>was set to an empty string in case TCPOS2.INI was empty - just like in
>VSoup1.2. If you give the '-i' switch, VSoup1.2 tried to connect to
>smtp with 'HELO (NULL)' which is rejected cause (NULL) is an invalid
>host name, but 'HELO ' seems to be valid (first case you will get, if
>hostName is a NULL-pointer, the later if hostName points to an empty
>string...)
>
>Give it a try and report what happened - this is a real bug...

It works without the "-i" switch.

>BTW: does anybody know the RFC number for SMTP??
>
>--
>Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen
>

-- 
Phil Crown
pcrown@airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/