Thank you Bernd, Let me try these options. I will get back to you.

Thanks
Mahesh

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Bernd Waibel <bwai...@intarsys.de> wrote:

> Hello Mahesh,
>
> I don't know "Load Runner". But I do know something about "mail errors".
> So here is my opinion.
>
> There are some common mail errors, like the ones you mentioned:
> - mail address without <>
> - boundary errors (missing boundry, etc)
> - filename errors (like missing "" around filenames)
>
> Most of the time we get this errors in spam mails or in virus mails.
> So if you have got a spam and virus blocking firewall before James, the
> wrong formatted mails may just get deleted.
> And may be the "Load Runner" mails get lost to, if your firewall thinks it
> is a spam mail.
> We normally do not have "real mails" with this errors, only spam and virus.
>
> These common mail errors may lead to an error in james, but strictliy
> speaking it is an error in the "SUN Java Mail API" Implementation
> (mail.jar). There are a few "options" you could set when you start james.
> If you set this options, this wrong formatted mail may be handled not "so
> strict" as defined by the mail standard.
>
>
> E.g. you could set the options in the /etc/init.d/phonix.sh startup-script
> on linux, like (in one line):
> export PHOENIX_JVM_OPTS="-Dmail.mime.applefilenames=true
> -Dmail.mime.parameters.strict=false
> -Dmail.mime.ignoreunknownencoding=true
> -Dmail.mime.encodeeol.strict=true
> -Dmail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingendboundary=true
> -Dmail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingboundaryparameter=true"
>
>
> This may help in handling the mails.
>
> And yes, firewalls may correct the syntax.
>
> And I think your are right with:
>    “the email sent from the Load
>    Runner may not be conforming to the SMTP standards. Our gateway is
> tolerant
>    to these non-standard clients and might be formatting the SMTP message
> as
>    per the standard”
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernd Waibel
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Mahesh Sivarama Pillai [mailto:srm...@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2015 13:16
> An: James Users List
> Betreff: Need Help: LoadRunner with James 2.3.2
>
> Hi,
>
> I have encountered an issue during our Load Testing with James 2.3.2. The
> load test tool being used is Load Runner. We have a corporate mail gateway
> to relay messages to internal mail servers. But we are not supposed to use
> it for Load Testing. So we have to send the email directly to the James
> server from Load Runner.
>
>
> Our Observation
>
>
>    - When we send email through gateway from Load Runner, the email is
>    received at our Internal Email server (James 2.3.2) without any issues
>    - When we send the email directly to our internal James server, there
>    are SMTP errors thrown like Syntax Error in MAIL command etc.
>       -     When I put the from address between "<" and ">" in LoadRunner
>       script, "Syntax Error in MAIL command" got resolved.
>       -     Then I started getting some Message boundary exceptions.
>    - When I use a Java Mail client and directly send the email to our
>    internal server, there are no issues.
>    - What I am thinking is (I may be wrong) “the email sent from the Load
>    Runner may not be conforming to the SMTP standards. Our gateway is
> tolerant
>    to these non-standard clients and might be formatting the SMTP message
> as
>    per the standard”
>
>
> Is this understanding correct ? Please provide your inputs on this
> behavior. Have you ever come across this kind of scenarios and how it was
> resolved ? Any input would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Mahesh
>
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