From: ADVAX::"mcnc!VM1.NoDak.EDU!tp%MCCALL.COM" "Terry Poot" 21-APR-1991 17:27:11.23 To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS CC: Subj: Re: Problem with control messages Received: by ADVAX.DECnet (utk-mail11 v1.5) ; Sun, 21 Apr 91 17:26:55 EDT Received: from mcnc by ge-dab.GE.COM (5.61/GE-DAB 1.15) with UUCP id AA07358 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 91 17:07:13 -0400 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by mcnc.mcnc.org (5.59/MCNC/3-21-91) id AA14397; Tue, 16 Apr 91 11:20:41 -0400 for ARISIA.DNET.ge.com!EVERHART Message-Id: <9104161520.AA14397@mcnc.mcnc.org> Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 0166; Tue, 16 Apr 91 10:18:55 CDT Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7409; Tue, 16 Apr 91 10:18:47 CDT Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 14:54:11 GMT Reply-To: Terry Poot Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: Terry Poot Subject: Re: Problem with control messages To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS In article <10APR91172619@eql.caltech.edu>, rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin) writes: >In article <1991Apr10.053342.20068@edwards-vax.af.mil>, >fisher@edwards-vax.af.mil writes... >>%STR-F-ILLSTRCLA, illegal string class > > Did you recently upgrade to VMS V5.3? Try adding BYPASS privilege >to >the MAIL_SERVER image (VMS installs it with SYSPRV). > >|$ install replace sys$system:mail_server.exe/priv=(sysprv,bypass) > >That used to be needed to fix an old mailer problem--I don't remember >the specifics anymore, except for the misleading "illegal string >class" >error. Giving BYPASS to the process performing this operation may work >too. For what it's worth, either _will_ work. However, if you only give bypass to the process in question, you haven't fixed the problem for anyone else. You should be having this problem any time you try to use a foreign protocol transport to send mail. Can your users send email? The problem is not in any way related specifically to the USENET forwarding alias, or the specific user receiving the mail, just to the transport in question. -- Terry Poot The McCall Pattern Company (uucp: ...!rutgers!ksuvax1!deimos!mccall!tp) 615 McCall Road (800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041 Manhattan, KS 66502, USA