Conference forty2::mailbus_400

3136.0. "Sending to the Internet using RFC822" by VMSNET::R_HARRIS () Mon Feb 17 1997 16:52

    Hello,
    
    I have a customer, the Federal REserve Bank that is trying to send to
    the Internet using an RFC822 DDA. The messages gets posted to the 
    Internet, but it does not get delivered. It appears to have gone in a 
    black hole.
    
    We are using SMTP GW v2.0, MB400 V2.0, X.500 V3.0 and Mailworks for 
    UNIX v2.0. 
    
    Using sendmail to send to an Internet recipient works fine:
    
    kbarth@iga.com
    
    However, sending to the following address results in the message going 
    to a black hole:
    
    c=us;a= ;p=fed;o=internet;dda:rfc822="kbarth@iga.com" 
    
    How do you troubleshoot something like this? It appears that the SMTP
    gw 
    MB400 has done its thing.
    
    Please advise.
    
    Thanks in advance for your support.
    
    Randy
    
    The SMTP config:
    ================
    
    ncl> show smtp all char
    
    Node 0 SMTP-GATEWAY
    AT 1997-02-14-10:11:27.633-05:00I-----
    
    Characteristics
    
        Agent                             = "smtp"
        MTS                               = "/mts=pension-mts"
        Domain                            = "smtp"
        RFC822 Domain                     = "trecom.trex.state.nj.us"
        ORAddress                         = "c=us;a= ;p=pension;o=internet"
        Lookup X400 Users                 = Optional
        Lookup Internet Users             = Optional
        Text Encoder                      = "quoted-printable"
        Binary Encoder                    = "base64"
        Character Set                     = "us-ascii"
        Character Translation             = RFC1137-Exact
        Trace Logging                     = Off
        Address Comments                  = MIXER
        Header Encoding                   = None
    
    The Sendmail entry:
    ====================
    
    R$*<@$*$=X.$N>$*        $#x400gw$@$w$:$1<@$2$3>$4      
    user@trecom.trex.state.n
    j.us
    R$*<@$*$=X.$j>$*        $#x400gw$@$w$:$1<@$2$3>$4      
    user@trecom.trex.state.n
    j.us.host
    R$*<@$*$=X>$*   $#x400gw$@$w$:$1<@$2$3>$4      
    user@x400terms.trecom.trex.state
    .nj.us
    
    Example of mail.log with a successful send using sendmmail:
    ===========================================================
    
    Feb 14 09:30:16 trecom sendmail[1896]: AA01896:
    message-id=<970214093015.1757@tr
    ecom.trex.state.nj.us>
    Feb 14 09:30:16 trecom sendmail[1896]: AA01896: from=typoa01, size=240,
    class=0,
     received from local
    Feb 14 09:30:17 trecom sendmail[1898]: AA01896: to=kbarth@iga.com,
    delay=00:00:0
    1, stat=Sent
    
    ------------------
    Example of mail.log with an unsucessful send using MTAmail:
    ===========================================================
    
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: Message arrived from X.400
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: X.400 MPDU ID=[C=us A= 
    P=pension Id=85
    5931442]
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: X.400 IPM
    message-id=<"RFC-822:33047a31
    :b*/CN=mailworks/RFC-822=(l)060(r)970214094401.1757(l)a(r)trecom.trex.state.nj.u
    s(l)062(r)/PRMD=pension/ADMD= /C=us/"@MHS>
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: X.400 from=/CN=test account
    1/OU=pensio
    ns/O=nj/PRMD=pension/ADMD= /C=us/
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: RFC 822
    from=/CN=test_account_1/OU=pens
    ions/O=nj/PRMD=pension/ADMD=_/C=us/@trecom.trex.state.nj.us
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: X.400
    to=/rfc-822=kbarth(a)iga.com/O=in
    ternet/PRMD=pension/ADMD= /C=us/
    Feb 14 09:44:02 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: RFC 822 to=kbarth@iga.com
    Feb 14 09:44:03 trecom sendmail[1910]: AA01910:
    message-id=<"RFC-822:33047a31:b*
    /CN=mailworks/RFC-822=(l)060(r)970214094401.1757(l)a(r)trecom.trex.state.nj.us(l
    )062(r)/PRMD=pension/ADMD= /C=us/"@MHS>
    Feb 14 09:44:03 trecom sendmail[1910]: AA01910:
    from=/CN=test_account_1/OU=pensi
    ons/O=nj/PRMD=pension/ADMD=_/C=us/@trecom.trex.state.nj.us, size=939,
    class=0, r
    eceived from local
    Feb 14 09:44:03 trecom X.400/SMTP[1567]: Message posted to internet 
    
    

It does look like the mail generated by the gateway is getting off-node. 
Try sending mail to a different user: it may be recipient mail system at iga.com
that is failing to handle the (legal) headers that the SMTP Gateway produces.

+Mark+