Subject: PC-Pine 3.90 won't send mail: problem found

From: [email-masked] (Sami Tapani Nurmela)
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 07:14:48 GMT

A while ago I wondered why my updated PC-Pine 3.90 (with FTP Software's 
PC/TCP 2.31) won't send mail. After contacting my system management, we
were able to locate the problem why PC-Pine 3.90 cannot contact our SMTP
server (Zmailer).

>From the log of our SMTP-server when I tried to send mail:
  24682r  HELO [ëN]
  24682w  500-  ^
  24682w  500 Illegal input characters: 8-bit char on SMTP input

So, is this a bug in Pine ? Or is it just our server being too picky ?
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Sami Nurmela   -   [email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 09:08:02 -0700

Well, I'm not sure whose bug this is...  PC/TCP is returning garbage on some
versions and we have not found all of the workarounds to make it work
consistently :(

Pine 3.91 will atleast have a filter to prevent the 8bit characters, but it
still may not work completely as we would like... 

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