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Q115362: X400: X400ADM.EXE Crashes to MS-DOS, Database Is Corrupted

Article: Q115362
Product(s): Microsoft Mail For PC Networks
Version(s): MS-DOS:3.2
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 05-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 you start X400ADM.EXE, select the Local MTA button, enter a name and put a
period and a comma at the end of the name, then enter the Country Code and Admd
Name and select OK, the program crashes to MS-DOS with the message:

  Path not found in line 0 of module LOCALMTA at address 9B84:06DA

If you restart X400ADM.EXE and select the Local MTA button, you see that the
database is corrupted:

- the Country Code entry is in the Admd Name field

- the Admd Name entry is moved to the Prmd Name field

- the MTA's (name) entry is gone from the OUTGOING subdirectory

CAUSE
=====

The comma is not a valid Name field character because the program interprets
commas as separators--in this case for the Name and Password fields. For
example:

  MTA01,,,us, ATTMAIL,

When this happens the data in the Country Code and Admd Name fields is displayed
in the next field down (Country Code to Admd Name; Admd Name to Prmd Name).

RESOLUTION
==========

Remove commas from MTA field entries.

The failure is most spectacular in the MTA name, but a comma causes the same
confusion in any MTA information field, since the underlying data file is
delimited with commas.


Additional query words:

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

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