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Article #679Re: HELP:Mercury...File Creation Error
From: Stephen Fergusson
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1076a3,3b28624318a3625d X-Google-Attributes: gid1076a3,public X-Google-Thread: 14ed67,3b28624318a3625d X-Google-Attributes: gid14ed67,public X-Google-Thread: f8bf7,3b28624318a3625d X-Google-Attributes: gidf8bf7,public From: "Stephen Fergusson" <stephen@smartcom.co.nz> Subject: Re: HELP:Mercury...File Creation Error Date: 1996/12/23 Message-ID: <01bbf07d$11478a60$980562cb@Stevie> X-Deja-AN: 205495986 references: <32B6C740.7E61@bucx.com.delete_this_part_> <5985b3$267o$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <32B86073.6736@mbr-bctg.newcastle.edu.au> organization: NetAccess Internet Services newsgroups: comp.os.netware.misc,comp.os.netware.admin,bit.listserv.pmail