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Error 255 and MHS SMFSEND directory?

[quote user="WWD"]Went into pconfig.exe and checked... it was all set to Y's.  Weird.  I've done many installations of Pegasus on different machines and never had this happen before.  No idea why it would default to Y's this time?  Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.  I appreciate your reply.
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The exact problem has just occurred to me (but a day after installing Pegasus on a new machine--a day during which I ran it with no problems that I can recall); and the same setting to all Y's *also* happened to me.  But, now that I have reset those all to N, I still get the same error message, presumably because I have not deleted the temporary directory.  Where *IS* the temporary directory?  So far my search for it has proved unfruitful.

 Lee Rudolph

<p>[quote user="WWD"]Went into pconfig.exe and checked... it was all set to Y's.  Weird.  I've done many installations of Pegasus on different machines and never had this happen before.  No idea why it would default to Y's this time?  Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.  I appreciate your reply. [/quote]</p><p>The exact problem has just occurred to me (but a day after installing Pegasus on a new machine--a day during which I ran it with no problems that I can recall); and the same setting to all Y's *also* happened to me.  But, now that I have reset those all to N, I still get the same error message, presumably because I have not deleted the temporary directory.  Where *IS* the temporary directory?  So far my search for it has proved unfruitful.</p><p> Lee Rudolph </p>

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle... I've been using Pegasus since v3 and have never seen this error before. I'd like to understand what's happening and why.  You know, I always get excited when I have something new come up in Pegasus because it means I can learn more about it.  I'm funny that way.  I guess there are two kinds of people: those who just want to know how to fix things when they go wrong, and those who want to know why it went wrong.  I am most certainly in the latter category.  If anyone has a few moments and a bit of patience to help, I'd really appreciate it.

Months ago, I installed Pegasus on three of my XP Home computers, then pointed pmail.cfg and the shortcut on each computer to open mailboxes from a main "server" computer through XP Home network.  Result: all machines could log in to the Pegasus same user accounts and mailboxes.  I've had this running for many, many months flawlessly.

This weekend I reformatted all computers and set up the above system in (what I thought was) exactly the same way.  However, now I get an error happening in some of the user accounts.  (Obviously, I've done something different but I know not what!)

When I try to send email I get this error message:  "SMFSEND has reported error 255 while attempting to deliver your message."  I click "ok" button, and a second error message comes up: "WinPMail has failed removing a temporary directory created for the MHS SMFSEND utility. It will remain in existence until you delete it manually."  So off I went searching for a directory that might have something to do with this, but I haven't found anything.

 What is MHS SMFSEND?   Why would these messages appear?  What might I have done to cause this?

 I've searched these forums and had no luck, so I'm sending this message.  I'll keep looking, but if anyone has any help for me, that would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

Edited to add:  I checked my SMTP settings and they are set correctly, as per this post: http://community.pmail.com/forums/post/7218.aspx 

 

Edited for the second time to add (yeesh!):  On a whimsy, I went through the SMTP settings and tried checking "Use in preference of LAN mailer for Internet mail" and the mail is now sending. Hmm.  I still want to understand how and why I got the error though.  In my first setup months ago, I did not check this option and it worked just fine.

<p>Well I'll be a monkey's uncle... I've been using Pegasus since v3 and have never seen this error before. I'd like to understand what's happening and why.  You know, I always get excited when I have something new come up in Pegasus because it means I can learn more about it.  I'm funny that way.  I guess there are two kinds of people: those who just want to know <i>how</i> to fix things when they go wrong, and those who want to know <i>why</i> it went wrong.  I am most certainly in the latter category.  If anyone has a few moments and a bit of patience to help, I'd really appreciate it.</p><p>Months ago, I installed Pegasus on three of my XP Home computers, then pointed pmail.cfg and the shortcut on each computer to open mailboxes from a main "server" computer through XP Home network.  Result: all machines could log in to the Pegasus same user accounts and mailboxes.  I've had this running for many, many months flawlessly. </p><p>This weekend I reformatted all computers and set up the above system in (what I thought was) exactly the same way.  However, now I get an error happening in some of the user accounts.  (Obviously, I've done something different but I know not what!) </p><p>When I try to send email I get this error message:  "SMFSEND has reported error 255 while attempting to deliver your message."  I click "ok" button, and a second error message comes up: "WinPMail has failed removing a temporary directory created for the MHS SMFSEND utility. It will remain in existence until you delete it manually."  So off I went searching for a directory that might have something to do with this, but I haven't found anything.</p><p> What is MHS SMFSEND?   Why would these messages appear?  What might I have done to cause this? </p><p> I've searched these forums and had no luck, so I'm sending this message.  I'll keep looking, but if anyone has any help for me, that would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!</p><p> </p><p><b><i>Edited to add: </i></b> I checked my SMTP settings and they are set correctly, as per this post: http://community.pmail.com/forums/post/7218.aspx  </p><p> </p><p><i><b>Edited for the second time to add (yeesh!):</b></i>  On a whimsy, I went through the SMTP settings and tried checking "Use in preference of LAN mailer for Internet mail" and the mail is now sending. Hmm.  I still want to understand how and why I got the error though.  In my first setup months ago, I did not check this option and it worked just fine. </p>

Edited for the second time to add (yeesh!):  On a whimsy,

I went through the SMTP settings and tried checking "Use in preference

of LAN mailer for Internet mail" and the mail is now sending. Hmm.  I

still want to understand how and why I got the error though.  In my

first setup months ago, I did not check this option and it worked just

fine.

For some reason Pegasus Mail thinks you have MHS installed  on your system and is using that in place of the built-in mailer.  I've not seen a MHS installation in years though.  Personally I'd use pconfig.exe and check to make sure there is no MHS/SMF interface set.

 

░┌─ Setup Options ─────────────────┬─Help─────────────────────┐░
 │                                                                 │ Pegasus Mail can use NetWare SMF   │░
 │                                                                 │ transports such as MHS: if you            │░
 │  Standalone configuration                            │ intend to use it with MHS, then            │░
 │  NetWare MHS/SMF Interface                     │ select this option. Examine the            │░
 │  Manage user-defined gateways                  │ section in GUIDE.EXE, the online         │░
 │                                                                 │ guide, for considerations about             │░
 │  Exit, saving settings                                  │ using Pegasus Mail with MHS.            │░
 │  Quit, without saving                                   │                                                          │░
 │                                                                 │ Pegasus Mail only supports MHS         │░
 │                                                                 │ version 1.5 and later.                           │░
 │                                                                 │ If you aren't using MHS then you          │░
 │                                                                 │ needn't select this option.                    │░
 │                                                                 │                                                          │░
 └────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘░

┌─────────────────── NetWare SMF Interface ───────────────────┐
│                                                                                                                          │
│              Enabled?: [N ]                                                                                       │
│            Preferred?:  N                                                                                          │
│           Use always?:  N                                                                                       │
│     Default workgroup:                                                                                          │
│       Local delivery?:  N                                                                                        │
│     SMF-71 available?:  N                                                                                     │
│        UTC time value:                                                                                           │
│          Use SMFSEND?:  N                                                                                  │
│           DOS MV path:  \\\SYS                                                                              │
│                                                                                                                          │
│  Whether or not MHS or SMF support is available on this                                        │
│  system                                                                                                              │
│                                                                                                                           │
│                                                                                                                           │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

<blockquote><i><b>Edited for the second time to add (yeesh!):</b></i>  On a whimsy, I went through the SMTP settings and tried checking "Use in preference of LAN mailer for Internet mail" and the mail is now sending. Hmm.  I still want to understand how and why I got the error though.  In my first setup months ago, I did not check this option and it worked just fine.</blockquote><p>For some reason Pegasus Mail thinks you have MHS installed  on your system and is using that in place of the built-in mailer.  I've not seen a MHS installation in years though.  Personally I'd use pconfig.exe and check to make sure there is no MHS/SMF interface set.</p><p> </p><p>░┌─ Setup Options ─────────────────┬─Help─────────────────────┐░  │                                                                 │ Pegasus Mail can use NetWare SMF   │░  │                                                                 │ transports such as MHS: if you            │░  │  Standalone configuration                            │ intend to use it with MHS, then            │░  │  NetWare MHS/SMF Interface                     │ select this option. Examine the            │░  │  Manage user-defined gateways                  │ section in GUIDE.EXE, the online         │░  │                                                                 │ guide, for considerations about             │░  │  Exit, saving settings                                  │ using Pegasus Mail with MHS.            │░  │  Quit, without saving                                   │                                                          │░  │                                                                 │ Pegasus Mail only supports MHS         │░  │                                                                 │ version 1.5 and later.                           │░  │                                                                 │ If you aren't using MHS then you          │░  │                                                                 │ needn't select this option.                    │░  │                                                                 │                                                          │░  └────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘░ </p><p>┌─────────────────── NetWare SMF Interface ───────────────────┐ │                                                                                                                          │ │              Enabled?: [N ]                                                                                       │ │            Preferred?:  N                                                                                          │ │           Use always?:  N                                                                                       │ │     Default workgroup:                                                                                          │ │       Local delivery?:  N                                                                                        │ │     SMF-71 available?:  N                                                                                     │ │        UTC time value:                                                                                           │ │          Use SMFSEND?:  N                                                                                  │ │           DOS MV path:  \\\SYS                                                                              │ │                                                                                                                          │ │  Whether or not MHS or SMF support is available on this                                        │ │  system                                                                                                              │ │                                                                                                                           │ │                                                                                                                           │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ </p>

Went into pconfig.exe and checked... it was all set to Y's.  Weird.  I've done many installations of Pegasus on different machines and never had this happen before.  No idea why it would default to Y's this time?  Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.  I appreciate your reply.


Went into pconfig.exe and checked... it was all set to Y's.  Weird.  I've done many installations of Pegasus on different machines and never had this happen before.  No idea why it would default to Y's this time?  Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.  I appreciate your reply.
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