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In article <32B86073.6736@mbr-bctg.newcastle.edu.au> Alan Knight <a.knight@mbr-bctg.newcastle.edu.au> writes:
>From: Alan Knight <a.knight@mbr-bctg.newcastle.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: HELP:Mercury...File Creation Error
>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:21:55 +1000

>LAJAndy wrote:
>> 
>> "Andrew G. Smith" <asmith@bucx.com.delete_this_part_> wrote:
>> 
>> >NetWare 4.10, Mercury 1.30
>> >I can send email to anyone in the world except six users on my server.
>> >They have C rights in the spool directory.  I really can't tell what's
>> >different.
>> 
>> >Failed message:
>> >reason - 'File creation error delivering to 'user_name'.'
>> >---
>> >$$<postmaster@blah.blah>
>> ><user_name@blah.blah>
>> 
>> Never actually had this problem, but things you might want to check:
>> 
>> 1)  Are you running Mercury in bindery or NDS mode?  If you're running
>> in bindery mode, are they in a bindery context?  If they are, is it
>> the first one (OK, that's reaching, but sometimes it makes a
>> difference.  I don't think Mercury likes multiple bindery contexts).
>> 
>> 2)  Are those users using a different version of Pegasus than your
>> other users?  Winpmail 2.4 and DOS Pmail 3.4 and later move the users'
>> mail directories to a PMAIL directory under the users' home directory
>> instead of ID number directories under SYS:MAIL.  This is supposedly
>> because the author got sick of Novell changing specs or something.  If
>> this is the case, you may not have the C right to the users' proper
>> mail directory.
>> 
>> LAJAndy
>> lajandy@ibm.net

>If you are using PMail in bindery mode on a 4.1 server, each user must
>login once in bindery mode to create their mail directory (under
>sys:mail). If you don't, mercury can't deliver to their mailbox.

Also check that this problem is not due to insufficient disk space i.e.
a directory quota set on sys:mail\xxxxxxxx or due to a volume or
directory restriction on the home directory or pmail subdirectory of
the home directory if using the NDS aware version.

John