From:	MERC::"uunet!WKUVX1.BITNET!MacroMan" 10-JUN-1992 22:19:11.10
To:	MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET
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Subj:	Re: Possible MAIL bug, need some explanations...


I believe that you will have to install DELIVER with bypass and maybe a few
other privs for it to work. This happened with most foreign protocol images at a
particular VMS revision, but I don't remember which. I know it happened with
PMDF, and DELIVER is derived from it. The illegal string class is a sort of
default message that you get when things are REALLY confused.

Note that it may be that none of this is true any more for PMDF, I no longer use
it, but it was once, and I don't know (a) how old your DELIVER is, and (b) how
closely it is updated in parallel with PMDF, if at all.

So yes, strange as it seems, you really need BYPASS, in addition to all other
privs it is installed with, you are correct in that without it, it can not
invoke the shareable image, and illegal string class is really the error message
you get in this case. I've been through it all before.
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