====================================================================== Microsoft(R) Product Support Services Application Note (Text File) WA0853: MICROSOFT MAIL IMPORT.EXE VERSION 3.2.9 UPDATE ====================================================================== Revision Date: 8/94 1 Disk Included The following information applies to Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, version 3.2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT AND ANY SOFTWARE THAT MAY | | ACCOMPANY THIS DOCUMENT (collectively referred to as an Application | | Note) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER | | EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED | | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR | | PURPOSE. The user assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and | | the use of this Application Note. 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All Rights Reserved. | | Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks and Windows and | | Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. | | OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines | | Corporation. | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| INTRODUCTION ============ The disk provided with this Application Note contains IMPORT.EXE, a replacement for the IMPORT.EXE file that is included with version 3.2 of Microsoft Mail for PC Networks. This update includes the following modifications: - The Import utility (with the -A option) no longer adds invalid DGN names to the Postoffice Address List (POL) when those names do not appear in the normal .USR files. - The Import utility no longer corrupts the MCI.NME file when importing MCI user names. This problem caused the Mail Administrator program to incorrectly display the MCI address information. - The Import utility no longer stops responding (hangs) when it processes RESYNC.GLB after doing heavy processing. NOTE: To resolve this problem, two .EXE files must be updated to version 3.2.9: the IMPORT.EXE file (update included in this Application Note) and the SRVMAIN.EXE file (update included in Application Note WA0951). - The Import utility now updates FLAG.GLB when it runs, causing the External Mail program to update its address lists on the next cycle interval. - The Import utility no longer does 1-byte reads of the template files. - When it is importing modified SNADS template information, the Import utility no longer incorrectly sequences the information. - When you use the Import utility to modify a user's configuration (any option set with an "&") and that user has remote access, the user's remote access ability is no longer removed. - When you use the Modify transaction type to update a user in the POL but you do not make any changes to the user's alias, the user's record is no longer deleted. - When you use the -A command-line option to modify template information, the Import utility no longer increases the size of the associated .INF file on each pass. The Import utility now creates a new .INF file that incorporates the changes rather than appending the changes to the existing .INF file. - When you use the Import utility to change a user's mailbox name, Error 34--"Could not access log information file"--no longer occurs when you start the MS-DOS client. - Deleting a local user with Import no longer leaves the user's folder files (.IDX and .FLD) orphaned in the FOLDERS\LOC\0000???? subdirectory of the Mail database. - A Microsoft Mail Connection 3.2 PROXYNET\PROXYPO postoffice address list is now propagated to a downstream requestor postoffice when the gateway postoffice is also the directory server postoffice. The Import utility now copies FFAPI postoffice address lists from the directory server to the GLB\RESYNC.GLB file to perform a directory synchronization manual import procedure. NOTE: To resolve this problem, two .EXE files must be updated: the IMPORT.EXE file (update included in this Application Note) and the SRVMAIN.EXE file (update included in Application Note WA0951). - Local postoffice users added with the Import utility will no longer be assigned an invalid identification number if the TID.GLB file is locked open. Also, batch creation of local postoffice users with the Import utility while the TID.GLB file is locked open no longer results in the same invalid identification number being assigned to multiple users. - Trap D errors or "An OS/2 program caused a protection violation" error no longer occurs under OS/2(R) or under the OS/2 subsystem of Windows NT(TM) when you use the Import utility with the -ST command- line option. - The Import utility now creates unique mailbag numbers when you add local postoffice users, even if the CONTROL.GLB file has been reset to zero. To update your IMPORT.EXE file ------------------------------ 1. Insert the enclosed WA0853 disk in your floppy disk drive. 2. At the MS-DOS command prompt, type the following and press ENTER copy :\import.exe where is the floppy disk drive containing the WA0853 disk and is the drive and directory where your IMPORT.EXE file currently resides. For example, if the IMPORT.EXE file is located in the MAILEXE directory on drive C and the WA0853 disk is in drive A, type the following command: copy a:\import.exe c:\mailexe A message will be displayed stating: 1 file(s) copied. This indicates that your IMPORT.EXE file has been successfully replaced. NOTE: The IMPORT.EXE file typically resides on the postoffice server in the Mail executables directory as well as on the machine importing addresses into the database. Make sure you update all copies of the IMPORT.EXE file.