Date:         Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:33:36 -0600
Reply-To:     AnnHett <annhett@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         AnnHett <annhett@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: question about SAS Log and email
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I submitted this issue to SAS.
It has been reported as a defect.
It is reported as fixed in the next major release - SAS 9.2

ann


On 12/19/06, AnnHett <annhett@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've read some related topics, but here is a slightly different situation.
>
> I attempted to send out a batch of email.  One email was just '@xxx.edu'.
>
> This is what the log shows:
>
> WARNING: Email: 553 5.1.3 <@xxx.edu>... User address required
> ERROR: Bad email address: @ xxx.edu
> WARNING: Email: 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient).
>
>
> All of the emails after the bad email result in the following log entries:
>
> Message sent
> To: 'somename@uiuc.edu'
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Subject: TEST 5.6 ~
> Attachments:
>
> So according to the log, all of the emails were sent, but none of the
> emails after the @ email were received.  I checked with the email server
> people and there is no record of the missing emails.
>
> I just discovered this, which means that over the last several months, I
> may have had thousands of emails not go out, that I thought did because the
> log says "message sent".
>
> Can anything be done about this?  Is there a setting I need to change?  Is
> this how SAS works?
>
> I just looked through some of my old logs and found other cases:
>
> WARNING: Email: 553 5.1.3 <somename@anothername@hotmail.com<somename@anothername@hotmail.com>>...
> Invalid route address
> ERROR: Bad email address: somename@anothername@hotmail.com
> <somename@anothername@hotmail.com+>
>
> If SAS stops sending stuff after these warnings, but continues to say
> message sent - what can be done about this?
> Is there error checking I can do to stop and start where I left off?  Any
> other ideas?  Does this happen to others?
>
> I apologize - I'm rambling - I'm in a state of shock .
>
> I'm running 9.1 on Windows XP
> Here are my settings in my config file.
>
> -EMAILSYS SMTP
> -EMAILDLG SAS
> -EMAILHOST xxx.xxx.xxx.edu
>
> Thanks,
> ann
>