Alex,
I certainly agree that the response you got from L-Soft was
inappropriate. It made me decide to try to help.
Alexander Willman wrote:
> Fellow LISTSERV Site Maintainers:
>
> Our installation of LISTSERV, version 14.3 on Solaris 8, appears to be
> generating inconsistent MIME boundaries when it sends Delivery Status
> Notification messages. Here is an example of such a message, with the
> Received headers removed, and the beginning and end of the message
> indicated by asterisks:
. . .
> The effect of this problem is that recipients of the DSNs cannot see the
> the error message within their e-mail clients, because the e-mail
> clients cannot find a MIME boundary matching the declared boundary, and
> (correctly) ignore the content of the message.
>
> Have any of you seen this problem or have an idea what may be going
> wrong? Thank you.
I'm the LISTSERV maintainer of a 14.3 Solaris system. I have tried to
duplicate the problem you are talking about. Your message was the result
of someone trying to replace a password with an address that was not
valid. What I tried was to register a new password with an invalid
address. In both cases, LISTSERV should try to send a confirmation
request, and when this fails, should send a notice to the LISTSERV
maintainer.
As LISTSERV maintainer, I got the message from LISTSERV. I'm using
Thunderbird as my email client and it shows me the error message just
fine. I see no sign of the trouble you reported.
Below is the complete message that I received (source). There are some
differences in the message text parts that make me wonder whether you
have changed some of the template. Ours are completely stock.
==== source ====
From - Thu Sep 15 19:29:40 2005
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 10000000
Return-Path: <>
Received: from mprelay2.uc.edu (mprelay2.uc.edu [10.23.4.248])
by mirapoint.uc.edu (MOS 3.7.0-GA)
with ESMTP id CTW03468;
Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:32 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from home.oln.org (home.oln.org [198.30.124.126])
by mprelay2.uc.edu (MOS 3.7.0-GA)
with SMTP id CYP03023;
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Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:27 -0400
From: "LISTS.OLN.ORG LISTSERV Server (14.3)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Delivery error report from LISTS.OLN.ORG
To: Andrea Wood <[log in to unmask]>, Dan Wheeler <[log in to unmask]>
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
X-LSV-ListID: None
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="UKWMXQEeIJRZLMJEIXUYADFFGeFGNJ"
X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mirapoint.uc.edu
X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown,
refid=0001.0A090201.432A02AA.004B-A-,
ip=198.30.124.126,
so=2005-08-25 03:25:28,
dmn=2005-05-20 17:56:59
--UKWMXQEeIJRZLMJEIXUYADFFGeFGNJ
The enclosed message, found in the LISTSERV mailbox and shown under the
spool
ID 24203 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery
error
notice for the following reason: "X-Report-Type:" field found in the
mail
header.
--UKWMXQEeIJRZLMJEIXUYADFFGeFGNJ
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Received: from localhost (localhost)
by home.oln.org (8.12.5+Sun/8.10.1) id j8FNTR9l023345;
Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="j8FNTR9l023345.1126826967/home.oln.org"
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
This is a MIME-encapsulated message
--j8FNTR9l023345.1126826967/home.oln.org
The original message was received at Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:26 -0400 (EDT)
from home.oln.org [198.30.124.126]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[log in to unmask]>
(reason: 550 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address
rejected: User unknown in local recipient table)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to universe.kidlink.org.:
>>> RCPT To:<[log in to unmask]>
<<< 550 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address rejected: User
unknown in local recipient table
550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
Message delivered to mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
--j8FNTR9l023345.1126826967/home.oln.org
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; home.oln.org
Received-From-MTA: DNS; home.oln.org
Arrival-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:26 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [log in to unmask]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; universe.kidlink.org
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 <[log in to unmask]>: Recipient address
rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
--j8FNTR9l023345.1126826967/home.oln.org
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from home.oln.org (home.oln.org [198.30.124.126])
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for <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:26 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:26 -0400
From: "LISTS.OLN.ORG LISTSERV Server (14.3)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Command confirmation request (2C5D6228)
To: [log in to unmask]
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Your command:
PW REP ********
requires confirmation. To confirm the execution of your command, simply
point your browser to the following URL:
http://lists.oln.org/cgi-bin/wa?OK=2C5D6228
Alternatively, if you have no WWW access, you can reply to the present
message and type "ok" (without the quotes) as the text of your message.
Just the word "ok" - do not retype the command. This procedure will work
with any mail program that fully conforms to the Internet standards for
electronic mail. If you receive an error message, try sending a new
message to [log in to unmask] (without using the "reply" function -
this is very important) and type "ok 2C5D6228" as the text of your
message.
Finally, your command will be cancelled automatically if LISTSERV does
not receive your confirmation within 48h. After that time, you must start
over and resend the command to get a new confirmation code. If you change
your mind and decide that you do NOT want to confirm the command, simply
discard the present message and let the request expire on its own.
------------------------- Original mail header --------------------------
X-Received: by LISTS.OLN.ORG via 127.0.0.1 with TCP/IP (TCPGUI protocol,
anonymous access)
--j8FNTR9l023345.1126826967/home.oln.org--
--UKWMXQEeIJRZLMJEIXUYADFFGeFGNJ--
==== end ====
Peace, Dan
=> Daniel D. Wheeler - Education & Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati
==> Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://wheeler.uc.edu
===> Teaching Human Rights Online: http://oz.uc.edu/thro
====> KIDLINK: http://www.kidlink.org
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