If you are using SMTP as your email interface when you send email from a SAS® process, and you specify an invalid email address, the DATA step will fail and discontinue further processing.

An error similar to the following is written to the SAS log file:

   WARNING: Email: 550 <email_address@sas.com>: Recipient address
   rejected: NO ACCESS to SAS.COM domain
   WARNING: Bad email address: email_address@sas.com
   ERROR: No email addresses specified.
   FATAL: Unrecoverable I/O error detected in the execution of the DATA step 
   program.  Aborted during the EXECUTION phase.

The hot fix changes the error to a warning, which returns an exit status code value of 1 and does not cause the DATA step to fail.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M1 is available at:

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at: