Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-04-07 Thread John Mattson
to replace something, it should not change such things. From: Bryan Klimek klimek.br...@mayo.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 01/18/2011 06:22 PM Subject:Re: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu I know the original

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-21 Thread Steve Dover
IMHO, things like XMITIP have a great place in business. Some of us work in smaller shops, with limited hardware and software budgets. If I can find a piece of 'freeware/shareware' that works, even with the qualification that YMMV, if it fits my needs I will use it. I have found that the

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofd4fe9bde.877881c8-on8825781c.007b5fd4-8825781c.007be...@ea.epson.com, on 01/18/2011 at 02:33 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: However, the RFC for SMTP defines the maximum for a line of data as 1000, That's including the CRLF. That makes the largest FB LRECL 998. --

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofb8309a50.37bd983a-on8825781c.006a7b54-8825781c.006b6...@ea.epson.com, on 01/18/2011 at 11:32 AM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: Is there an IBM Manual which will tell me the proper format and limitations for these eMail messages and MIME parms??? I hope not; they should

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Mason
John Maybe zOS 1.11 will be better... gotta be, right? If you are going to wait for a functionally stabilised and replaced component like SMTP to improve, you will meet Godot first! SMTP (old, nay antique, and VMCF-dependent) is replaced by brand shining new CSSMTP as of z/OS V1R11. I guess

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Mason
Ulrich Being free means there's no incentive to assure function and that's a key factor for business use. Which tends to make being free the worst thing about XMITIP! Chris Mason On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:40:46 -0800, Ulrich Krueger u...@pacbell.net wrote: To John Mattson: Have you considered

WAS: EMail attachments stopped working... NOW When great techs go over the side

2011-01-20 Thread John Mattson
: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ulrich Being free means there's no incentive to assure function and that's a key factor for business use. Which tends to make being free the worst thing about XMITIP! Chris Mason On Tue, 18 Jan

Re: WAS: EMail attachments stopped working... NOW When great techs go over the side

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/20/2011 10:13 AM, John Mattson wrote: WHICH brings up another point. Ain't it a shame when great techs go over to management type positions? I see that Lionel has moved up (?) and will now be in the sales department at IBM (see: http://www.lbdsoftware.com/index.htm ) and will

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240809c95addf724c8@[192.168.1.11], on 01/18/2011 at 01:17 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: What I was saying is that as soon as the SMTP Server sees a DATA command, it treats the rest of what it is passed as the MESSAGE BODY. That is incorrect; it treats the subsequent

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of7ee50016.5336dbd7-on8825781c.0063281c-8825781c.00648...@ea.epson.com, on 01/18/2011 at 10:18 AM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: ALL: Right now I have a FB 80 input which DOES work I'm surprised that the invalid[1] type txt/plain didn't cause any problems. BUT my

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktina5rbjete1ifgnww9lltxyuip5szp3nryec...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/18/2011 at 12:07 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by the MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240807c95abaf02387@[192.168.1.11], on 01/17/2011 at 11:01 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: I am be incorrect but the DATA Statement needs to be the LAST header DATA is *not* a header field, it is a command. Both the header and the body follow the DATA command. (ie:

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktikesoh7vzsr3facak3723kfdavwzdpd9hjva...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/17/2011 at 10:40 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: No, sorry -- postmaster is where bounced notes go. Deliverty status notifications are supposed to go to the reverse path from the MAIL command. -- Shmuel

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of31c0b1cf.1c868993-on8825781c.0009e3bf-8825781c.000b1...@ea.epson.com, on 01/17/2011 at 06:00 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: Early 2011-Jan eMails creating attachments using Mime Try adding a Content-Transfer-Encoding Header Field. Try correcting the content type. Then

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread John Mattson
: 01/18/2011 05:14 AM Subject:Re: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu In of31c0b1cf.1c868993-on8825781c.0009e3bf-8825781c.000b1...@ea.epson.com, on 01/17/2011 at 06:00 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread John Mattson
pretty small. Perhaps there is a way to make larger records work, or Split and Continue the comma delimited records ? From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 01/18/2011 05:14 AM Subject:Re: EMail attachments stopped working

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Phil Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: I 'think' I have finally ferreted out the catch in this thing. 1) boundary= is nice, but not required because we are using Content-Type: txt/ I have tested this, and found that I still get the attachment with or

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread John Mattson
zOS 1.11 will be better... gotta be, right? From: Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com To: ibmtc...@vm.marist.edu Date: 01/18/2011 12:58 PM Subject:Re: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by:IBM TCP/IP List ibmtc...@vm.marist.edu While there are only vague

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Ulrich Krueger
attachments stopped working On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: I 'think' I have finally ferreted out the catch in this thing. 1) boundary= is nice, but not required because we are using Content-Type: txt/ I have tested this, and found that I still get

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:59:46 -0800, Phil Smith wrote: I've been following this thread, and asked Someone at IBM Who Shall Remain Nameless, who replied: The MTA doesn't care about MIME, per se, but it may not be coded defensively in the event those posited too-long-lines are causing a problem.

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:33:21 -0800, John Mattson wrote: 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

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-18 Thread Bryan Klimek
I know the original poster said they were using z/OS 1.8 and this does not address the original problem. But IBM now has a replacement SMTP client for z/OS. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/topic/com.ibm.iea.commserv_v1/commserv/1.11z/appl/cssmtp.pdf We made the switch a

EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread John Mattson
zOS 1.08 (yes, I have 1.11 ready to go as soon as I get management OK). Please be gentle, TCPIP is not my strength. Early 2011-Jan eMails creating attachments using Mime stopped working. What we do is fairly simple, create three FB 80 PS datasets, one with the addressing mime info, One with

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread zMan
SWAGs: So what makes that a bad note? Do you know? What's it supposed to do with a bad note? Did POSTMASTER (or equivalent) go away? MIME is content-related, doesn't (shouldn't) have anything to do with SMTP. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:00 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: zOS

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread John Mattson
only a nodding acquaintence with. From: zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 01/17/2011 06:19 PM Subject:Re: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu SWAGs: So what makes that a bad note? Do you

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread zMan
contain the MIME statements.  WHICH I confess I have only a nodding acquaintence with. From:   zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com To:     IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date:   01/17/2011 06:19 PM Subject:        Re: EMail attachments stopped working Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:00 -0800 on 01/17/2011, John Mattson wrote about EMail attachments stopped working: So, our first PS 80 dataset contains something like this... HELO EAI1.EPSON.COM MAIL FROM:rn_c...@ea.epson.com RCPT TO:edwin_bern...@ea.epson.com DATA FROM: rn_c...@ea.epson.com TO:edwin_bern

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread zMan
, John Mattson wrote about EMail attachments stopped working: So, our first PS 80 dataset contains something like this... HELO EAI1.EPSON.COM MAIL FROM:rn_c...@ea.epson.com RCPT TO:edwin_bern...@ea.epson.com DATA FROM:  rn_c...@ea.epson.com TO:    edwin_bern...@ea.epson.com SUBJECT: (TEST

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:07:04 -0500, zMan wrote: No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by the MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a red herring here. Time was. But nowadays I suspect there are busybody MTAs that

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:07 -0500 on 01/18/2011, zMan wrote about Re: EMail attachments stopped working: No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by the MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a red herring here. What I was saying