SYMPTOMS
After you use the IMPORT utility (IMPORT.EXE) to modify addresses in the
postoffice or to modify a gateway address list (for a SNADS gateway
address, for example), the following error may appear while IMPORT.EXE is
running:
#04/14/94 15:25:24 | Error [ 29] Alias does not exist Fser Number 3 (3)
D Fser Number 3 SNADS:SNADSGATE/SNADSDGN/user3
The SNADS address list, and possibly the global address list (GAL), will
then contain two entries for one user.
CAUSE
This problem occurs when the entry for the modified address list in the
text file used by IMPORT.EXE is incorrectly spelled. For example, a section
of such a text file, for a SNADS gateway address list, may look like the
following:
M User Number 12 snads:snadsgate/snadsdgn/user12
Used to be Number 12 snads:snadsgate/snadsdgn/user12
M Fser Number 3 snads:snadsgate/snadsdgn/user3
Used to be Number 3 snads:snadsgate/snadsdgn/user3
The first use of the "M" transaction code is correct; the administrator
correctly entered "User Number 12" as the name to modify. The second line
of this (first) "M" transaction is the modification to "User Number 12".
The second use of the "M" transaction is incorrect because the
administrator incorrectly typed the name to be modified: instead of typing
"User Number 3", the administrator typed "Fser Number 3". The second line
of this (second) "M" transaction then contains the modified user name.
The expected result of this incorrect text entry is that IMPORT.EXE ignores
the incorrectly entered "M" command. However, this is not the case;
IMPORT.EXE reads "M Fser Number 3" and creates an entry in the address list
that points to SNADS:SNADSGATE/SNADSDGN/USER3 with the name "Fser Number
3". IMPORT.EXE then ignores the second line of the "M" transaction.
The result is an address list with two entries pointing to a single MBG and
KEY combination.