Microsoft KB Archive/924147

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E-mail messages are sent to the Conndata\Badmail folder instead of to Exchange Server 2003 when you use the Novell GroupWise Gateway/Internet Agent program to handle incoming e-mail messages

Article ID: 924147

Article Last Modified on 10/25/2007

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS

You use the Novell GroupWise Gateway/Internet Agent program to handle incoming e-mail messages on a computer that is running Novell GroupWise. When you do this, you experience the following symptoms:

• E-mail messages are not delivered to a computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Instead, the e-mail messages are delivered to the Conndata\Badmail folder.

• The following events are logged in the Application log:
  
  Event ID 54201

  Event Type: Warning
  Event Source: MSExchangeGWISE
  Event Category: GroupWise to Exchange Conversion
  Event ID: 54201
  Date: date
  Time: time
  User: N/A
  Computer: Server_Name
  Description: Error {GRC:180c}: Cannot parse GroupWise message

  Event ID 41504

  Event Type: Error
  Event Source: MSExchangeGWISE
  Event Category: GroupWise to Exchange Conversion
  Event ID: 41504
  Date: date
  Time: time
  User: N/A
  Computer: Server_Name
  Description: Invalid GroupWise message. Moving item to BADMAIL queue.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, add the following entries to the Gwia.cfg file on the Novell GroupWise server:

/DIA
/ari-never

Note The Gwia.cfg file is located in the Sys/system folder.

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