How are you creating the attachment?  Is it BASE64 encoded?

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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:40 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] Sendmail quandry


> I have been using sendmail for a couple of years.  We use it to send
> notifications from a job stream also to send files.
>
> Recently I started experiencing a problem when sending a PDF file.  So far
> I have only seen this problem when trying to send a PDF file as an
> attachment.  The e-mail fails with a syslog.log entry that says invalid
> parameter.
>
> Turning on debug gives the following when the attempt fails:
>
> openmailer: MCI@419e5edc: flags=c<CACHED,ESMTP>,
>        errno=22, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=0, pid=0,
>        maxsize=0, phase=client EHLO, mailer=esmtp,
>        status=4.4.2, rstatus=NULL,
>        hist=gwia.dmba.com., lastuse-Fri Oct 18 10:20:35 2002
> dropenvelope 41667328: id=KAA2032978,
> flags=601043<OLDSTYLE,INQUEUE,DELETE_BCC,
> GLOBALERRS,HAS_DF,IS_MIME>
>
> When the attempt works it looks like this:
>
> openmailer: MCI@419e5edc: flags=86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN>,
>        errno=0, herrno=0, exitstat=0, state=2, pid=0,
>        maxsize=0, phase=client EHLO, mailer=esmtp,
>        status=NULL, rstatus=NULL,
>        hist=gwia.dmba.com., lastuse-Fri Oct 18 10:34:01 2002
>
> The problem occurs when run in a job.  Sometimes it will work, sometimes
> it doesn't.  The same job, run a few minutes apart could fail while the
> other works.  If I attempt the exact same thing from the command prompt,
> it always works.
>
> I don't know what to look at next.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl
>
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