Thanks to everyone, the LRECL does indeed seem to be the source of the problem (limit is 1000, see below). I do wish that the zOS SMTP server would give a better indication of what the problem is, and I wish that it would give that message, throw the message away and go on processing. Maybe zOS 1.11 will be better... gotta be, right?
From: Alan Altmark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/18/2011 12:58 PM Subject: Re: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by: IBM TCP/IP List <[email protected]> While there are only vague inferences in the R8 book, if you look at the R12 IP User's Guide, you'll see that details about using TRANSMIT and IEBGENER with SMTP has been added. In particular, the IEBGENER section says, "The logical record limit for files is 1024 bytes. The block size limit for files that are placed on the spool file is 32 760." The documentation of the LRECL restriction is new. However, the RFC for SMTP defines the maximum for a line of data as 1000, so that wins over z/OS. If you want to have lines longer than 1000 you can, but you have to encode the text using something other than plain text and spread it across multiple lines in the MIME-part body. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
