FIX: xp_readmail Fails on MIPS Computers
Article ID: 153141
Article Last Modified on 10/3/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q153141
SYMPTOMS
When you use Windows NT 3.51 (Build 1057) and Microsoft Mail installed on a
MIPS computer with SQL 6.0 or SQL 6.5 with xp_readmail, xp_readmail will
fail with an Exception: illegal instruction (0xc00001d), address:
0x7ffff000.:
xp_startmail
go
xp_sendmail 'testuser', @message='select * from authors', @dbuse='pubs'
go
exec xp_readmail
go
WORKAROUND
- Set up sp_processmail as a scheduled task running recurring every minute
as the following:
sp_processmail @subject='SQL', @filetype='TXT', @separator=' ',
@dbuse='pubs'
- Send mail to testuser (the account that SQL Server is running
under and the account that was setup to start mail) with the subject
'SQL' and in the message 'select * from authors'.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft SQL Server
versions 6.0 and 6.5. This problem has been corrected in U.S. Service Pack
1 for Microsoft SQL Server version 6.5. For more information, contact your
primary support provider.
Additional query words: server sp_processmail MIPS
Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB153141