FAX: Gateway to Fax Version 3.0.1 Update

ID: Q106259

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to Fax, version 3.0a

SUMMARY

Microsoft provides a replacement for the FAXGTW.EXE file that is included with version 3.0a of Microsoft Mail Gateway to Fax.

For complete information about obtaining and installing the FAXGTW.EXE file, see the following sections:

To download the updated file

To update your FAXGTW.EXE file

MORE INFORMATION

This update contains FAXGTW.EXE, a replacement for the FAXGTW.EXE file that is included with version 3.0a of Microsoft Mail Gateway to Fax. This update resolves problems with the Gateway to Fax generating invalid mail messages. The following two types of messages were corrected:

Incoming fax messages (a message with a fax attachment).

Fax Delivery Status Report messages (a message sent to the sender of an outgoing fax message indicating whether or not the fax message was sent)

The Fax gateway generates the following error messages, which are sent from the POSTMASTER mailbox account:

From the MS-DOS client:

Notice 142
This message is corrupt and can not be accessed.
Contact your administrator.

From the Windows client:

===== MAIL SYSTEM ERROR =====
Mail could not read the entire message from the postoffice.
Some of the parts of the message may be missing. Ask the sender to resend the message.

To download the updated file

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file name below to download the file:

Faxgtw.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

After you download FAXGTW.EXE to a clean directory, run it (by typing faxgtw at the MS-DOS prompt) to extract the contents of the file. You should receive the following files:

FAXGTW.EXE (139,686 bytes, dated 08-27-93, 11:17 A.M.)
README.TXT

To update your FAXGTW.EXE file

At the MS-DOS command prompt, type the following and press ENTER

copy <path>:\faxgtw.exe <destination>

where <path> is the drive and directory where you ran the self- extracting FAXGTW.EXE file and <destination> is the drive and directory where your FAXGTW.EXE file currently resides. For example, if you ran the self- extracting file from the TEST directory on drive D, and your FAXGTW.EXE file is located in the MAILEXE directory on drive C, type the following command:

copy d:\test\faxgtw.exe c:\mailexe

Additional query words: 3.00a wga

Keywords : MailGWFax
Version : MS-DOS:3.0a
Platform : MS-DOS
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