Problem Note 41926: An email fails with "ERROR: Email: The connection was reset by a peer"
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Long TO='address' or CC='address' fields create a long header in email. This length can cause some SMTP servers to drop the connection.
When this issue occurs, the following error is written to the SAS log:
ERROR: Email: The connection was reset by a peer.
A circumvention is to shorten the number of characters in the recipient addresses to less than 998.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#41926
Long To: or cc: fields create a long header an email. This can cause some SMTP servers to drop the connection.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2011-02-18 09:09:32 |
| Date Created: | 2010-12-21 17:22:16 |