Re: String frustration

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

For sure something strange is definitely going on.  I ended and 
restarted MSF. Stopped and started with *RESUME.  Stopped and started 
with *CLEAR.

After each start, I attempted to send an email outside to my personal email
account.  Nothing.

I am remotely signed on the the i via my desktop pc at work.  Earlier, the
connection dropped for some reason.  After a few frustrating minutes, I got
back in.  My computer had not chosen that moment to reboot.  Simething on the
network between my home computer, the remote service, and my employer and
ultimately my desktop went crazy.  Makes me wonder if something is going on at
my employer, with the network.

Thanks for the link.  I looked at it briefly.  Not sure what to make of 
things,
considering the mail program worked as recently as 6:30 AM Friday 
morning - and
that with the botched Date header.

Maybe something going on with the mail server.  Microsoft.  Just 
thought it odd
that earlier, when I removed the Date: header completely, for a tes

I am thinking I am just going to walk away from this for the remainder of the
weekend and see what happens on Monday morning.

John McKee

Quoting Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> John,
>
> The date: header would not affect whether a message is or isn't
> delivered.  That's a separate/unrelated issue.
>
> Have you gone over the troubleshooting e-mail section of the info center?
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzair/rzairfixemail.htm
>
> I've also had problems where MSF just seems to go haywire and stop
> working.  Sometimes it makes sense to do:
>
> ENDMSF OPTION(*IMMED)
> STRMSF MSGOPT(*RESUME)
>
> If that doesn't help, you might try replacing *RESUME with *RESET or
> *CLEAR -- but beware that *RESET can cause mail to be sent twice, and
> *CLEAR can cause mail to be lost.  But sometimes that's necessary to get
> the mail server working again in my experience.
>
> John McKee wrote:
> > But, as far as I can tell, the string is formatted correctly for sending an
> > email.  But, when I tested it, I received nothing.  In the last few hours, I
> > have been wondering if the cause is a new problem - other headers not filled
> > in.  When I ran SNDEMAIL, several parameters were populated with 
> > *NONE.  Since
> > I was just trying a simple test, I left those as they were.
>
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