X400: X400ADM.EXE Crashes to MS-DOS, Database Is Corrupted

ID: Q115362

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400, version 3.2

SYMPTOMS

If you start X400ADM.EXE, select the Local MTA button, enter a name and put a period and a comma at the end of the name, then enter the Country Code and Admd Name and select OK, the program crashes to MS-DOS with the message:

Path not found in line 0 of module LOCALMTA at address 9B84:06DA

If you restart X400ADM.EXE and select the Local MTA button, you see that the database is corrupted:

the Country Code entry is in the Admd Name field

the Admd Name entry is moved to the Prmd Name field

the MTA's (name) entry is gone from the OUTGOING subdirectory

CAUSE

The comma is not a valid Name field character because the program interprets commas as separators--in this case for the Name and Password fields. For example:


   MTA01,,,us, ATTMAIL,

When this happens the data in the Country Code and Admd Name fields is displayed in the next field down (Country Code to Admd Name; Admd Name to Prmd Name).

RESOLUTION

Remove commas from MTA field entries.

The failure is most spectacular in the MTA name, but a comma causes the same confusion in any MTA information field, since the underlying data file is delimited with commas.

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Version : MS-DOS:3.2
Platform : MS-DOS
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