X400: X400ADM.EXE Crashes to MS-DOS, Database Is Corrupted (115362)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 3.2

This article was previously published under Q115362

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.

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/5/1999
Keywords:KB115362