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; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:29:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from home.oln.org (home.oln.org [198.30.124.126]) by home.oln.org (8.12.5+Sun/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j8FNTQ9n023342; 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]) by home.oln.org (8.12.5+Sun/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j8FNTQ9l023342 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