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X400: Err Msg: ERROR 8 (layer): Initialization Failed...MEMORY

Article ID: 111948

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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Version 3.2 of Microsoft Mail Gateway to X.400 may give this error on initialization:

ERROR 8 (layer): Initialization failed x=RC_MEMORY check value.

The gateway failed to initialize the protocol stack to listen for incoming calls, this indicates low memory.

Unload some unneeded TSR programs. The gateway requires at least 400K of conventional memory on the gateway machine after all drivers are loaded.

Additional query words: 3.20 Errmsg

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