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Re: HELP:Mercury...File Creation Error

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From: Stephen Fergusson
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:00
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Check your directory quotas in SYS:Mail as well.  You might not have enough
space.

Alan Knight <a.knight@mbr-bctg.newcastle.edu.au> wrote in article
<32B86073.6736@mbr-bctg.newcastle.edu.au>...
> 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.
> 
> Alan
> 
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From: "Stephen Fergusson" <stephen@smartcom.co.nz>
Subject: Re: HELP:Mercury...File Creation Error
Date: 1996/12/23
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