X400: Gateway Crashes on Receipt of a DEC VAX Delivery Report

ID: Q115357

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

The X.400 gateway crashes upon receipt of a DEC VAX delivery report.

CAUSE

The DEC VAX delivery report includes a NIST-defined internal trace field that is in the message's contents as well as in the envelope.

The internal trace should not reside in the content field. The file should be declared bad, the report moved to the "bad" subdirectory, and the logs notified of an "incorrect" report.

RESOLUTION

A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft, but has not been fully regression tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/default.asp

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:


   File Name      Version
   ----------------------
   X400gate.exe   3.0.2

This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as X400gy2k.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/pcmail-public/all-y2k/

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 version 3.0.

MORE INFORMATION

DEC fixed the problem, although older versions of the software sometimes crop up and cause this problem.

Additional query words: 3.20

Keywords : MailGWX400
Version : MS-DOS:3.0
Platform : MS-DOS
Issue type : kbbug