Re: Weird error from MPro

On 14 Oct 2020  Harriet Bazley <lists@...> wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2020 as I do recall,
>           Dr Peter Young wrote:

>> I'm having to send this via webmail as MPro has just become unusable for
>> me. I was truing to send an email to a new contact, and I now get the
>> recurring error, every four seconds or so, when I run MPro (8.40. The
>> message says " Error from Messenger: Transport command failed - No sender
>> specified in control file (1)"
>> 
>> This is with RISC OS 5.27 (RComp version) (30-Sep_2020)
>> 
>> I've repaired all of MPro's groups, but the error persisits.
>> 

> I think you need to locate the offending file in the outbound queue and
> delete that.   Have a look in !Hermes.MailDir.mailout, where you should
> see a couple of directories 'text' and 'work'.   You will probably find
> the stub of your e-mail in one of them, along with its corresponding
> (corrupt) control file in the other.   Try deleting both.

Thanks, Harriet. I sent a copy of the list email to Andrew, and he 
unerringly identified that the problem was exactly as you say.

Best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc Tl) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung@...

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