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Problem Note 50070: Email messages sent by a SAS® program fail with "ERROR: Invalid number"
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If your SAS® program cannot successfully send any email messages or you successfully send one or more email messages but a subsequent email fails with the following error, it might be because your system is busy:
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
ERROR: Invalid number.
When the system is busy, the email message is split into multiple parts, causing SAS to fail. This issue might occur on a sporadic basis.
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 | N/A | Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS VAX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| z/OS 64-bit | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| IRIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||