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Q102301: X400: Err: TMP Variable Not Set Gives WARNING 7 Error

Article: Q102301
Product(s): Microsoft Mail For PC Networks
Version(s): MS-DOS:3.2
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 12-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, version 3.2 
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SYMPTOMS
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If the MS-DOS SET TMP variable is not present in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, version
3.2 of Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 generates these error messages:

  15:21:44 WARNING 7 (bodypart typing initialization): Environment
  variable TMP not (or incorrectly) set.

  15:21:44 WARNING 7 (bodypart typing initialization): Using m:x400
  as working directory.

The first error states that the variable is not set and the second states that
the X400Gate executable will use the X400 directory in the Microsoft Mail
database as the working directory.

If the user running the gateway does not have sufficient network rights to write
to the directory where the TMP variable is set, the gateway is not able to
create messages, causing the following errors:

  07:50:39 Extracting message from local message store: 0000003C
  07:50:40 ERROR 3 (creating X.400 message envelope (P1)): opening file:
  M:\X4_2
  07:50:40 ERROR 3 (converting PC mail message to X.400): Creating P1
  07:50:40 ERROR 3 (converting PC mail message to X.400): local form to X400
  conversion
  07:50:40 ERROR -18 (processing mail bound for X.400): Receive from local
  message store Failed
  07:50:40 WARNING -1 (processing mail bound for X.400): FROM:
  JOHNLAND/JOHNPO1/Admin
  07:50:40 WARNING -1 (processing mail bound for X.400): SUBJECT: test
  07:50:40 ERROR -1 (collecting mail from local message store): ProcessMail()
  07:50:40 WARNING -1 (receiving message): Failed receiving message pointer
  count: 411; byte count: 9668

RESOLUTION
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Set the MS-DOS TMP variable to a location with enough disk storage to store the
largest X.400 message the gateway can reasonably be expected to receive.


Additional query words: 3.20

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMailSearch kbMailGateSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbMailGatex400320
Version           : MS-DOS:3.2

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