Article ID: 172282
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q172282
SYMPTOMS
When you run the MAILSRV utility that ships with the Windows NT Resource
Kit, you may be unable to receive e-mail messages from UNIX hosts, but
e-mail messages from other clients, such as Exchange, are delivered as
expected.
When the UNIX client sends an e-mail message to the Windows NT local user
running MAILSRV, the message is delivered to the mail spool directory but
the message never reaches the Inbox.
The following message may appear in Event Viewer:
Event ID: 3004
Description:
"The message could not be delivered to local user <user>. The error from
the operating system was <n>" where <n> is either "2" or "5".
The remote UNIX computer sending the e-mail may receive one of the
following error messages:
"Unable to send termination"
-or-
"Undeliverable"
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the MAILSRV utility shipped
in the Windows NT Resource Kit version 4.0. The MAILSRV utility has been
pulled from the latest release of the Resource Kit. This problem will not
be fixed due to other problems encountered while attempting to resolve this
problem.
Additional query words: prodnt reskit mailserv zero bytes 0 bytes Mail POP3 Server SMTP Server Local Mail Delivery Agent
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