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Q123825: SMTP: Err Msg: Can Not Use Indirect Postoffice to Forward Mail

Article: Q123825
Product(s): Microsoft Mail For PC Networks
Version(s): MS-DOS:3.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 31-OCT-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP, version 3.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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You may receive the following error when you install the Microsoft Mail Gateway
for SMTP Access:

  Can not use indirect postoffice to forward mail

CAUSE
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This error occurs if you try to assign an indirect postoffice to be the gateway
postoffice during the installation process.

RESOLUTION
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Use the following steps to ensure that the gateway postoffice is direct to the
local postoffice:

1. Stop the installation procedure.

2. Start the Administrator program (ADMIN.EXE).

3. Select External, Admin-Modify to modify the relationship to the gateway
  postoffice.

4. Quit ADMIN.EXE.

5. Install the Access component.

MORE INFORMATION
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The network and postoffice name you specify during the access component
installation does not have to be the gateway postoffice name. It could be a
forwarding postoffice, which has a direct relationship to the gateway
postoffice. You can make a chain of direct relationships to the gateway
postoffice.

Additional query words: access install

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMailSearch kbMailGateSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbMailGateSMTP300
Version           : MS-DOS:3.0

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