Found this error today...

Sat Sep 19 08:48:48 2020
term Node 1 <Gate Keeper> !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) (WinError 32) in netmail.cpp line 1065 (sbbs_t::inetmail) opening "c:\sbbs\data\mail" access=-205 info=smb_open_fp timeout opening c:\sbbs\data\mail.sdt (retry_time=30)

Sat Sep 19 08:53:52 2020
term Node 1 <Gate Keeper> !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) (WinError 32) in netmail.cpp line 1065 (sbbs_t::inetmail) opening "c:\sbbs\data\mail" access=-205 info=smb_open_fp timeout opening c:\sbbs\data\mail.sdt (retry_time=30)

Sat Sep 19 08:54:12 2020
evnt QNET !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) (WinError 32) in pack_rep.cpp line 120 (sbbs_t::pack_rep) opening "c:\sbbs\data\mail" access=-205 info=smb_open_fp timeout opening c:\sbbs\data\mail.sdt (retry_time=30)

The file mail.sdt is in the directory. Any ideas? Email was working fine yesterday, now it won't send netmail and shows this error.

Gate Keeper
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Re: Email Error
By: Gate Keeper to All on Sat Sep 19 2020 20:19:25

Found this error today...

term Node 1 <Gate Keeper> !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) (WinError 32) in

The file mail.sdt is in the directory. Any ideas? Email was working fine

The answer is right there in the error message. Permission denied. Make sure that the user you're running Synchronet as can read & write that file.

I don't Windows very often, but is there a chance you first ran your BBS as another user (or 'run as administrator') and then this time, started it up as a different user (or without elevated privileges)?

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Re: Email Error
By: Gate Keeper to All on Sat Sep 19 2020 08:19 pm

Found this error today...

Sat Sep 19 08:48:48 2020
term Node 1 <Gate Keeper> !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) (WinError 32) in netmail.cpp line 1065 (sbbs_t::inetmail) opening "c:\sbbs\data\mail" access=-205 info=smb_open_fp timeout opening c:\sbbs\data\mail.sdt (retry_time=30)

The file mail.sdt is in the directory. Any ideas?

Yeah, it's not saying the file isn't there. It's saying that it does not have permission to open the file. Is it possible that another process has the file open and locked? I would shutdown sbbs and try using "smbutil r" to read the data/mail and see if that is successful. If not, then I would reboot to insure that there isn't some process in the background somewhere with the file open and locked. If after rebooting, you still can't open the file, then I would suspect the permissions on the file itself are a problem.

Email was working fine
yesterday, now it won't send netmail and shows this error.

I would guess that *all* email functions would fail, not just netmail.

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Re: Email Error
By: echicken to Gate Keeper on Sat Sep 19 2020 10:19 pm

Re: Email Error
By: Gate Keeper to All on Sat Sep 19 2020 20:19:25

Found this error today...

term Node 1 <Gate Keeper> !ERROR 13 (Permission denied) (WinError 32) i

The file mail.sdt is in the directory. Any ideas? Email was working fin

The answer is right there in the error message. Permission denied. Make sure that the user you're running Synchronet as can read & write that file.

I don't Windows very often, but is there a chance you first ran your BBS as another user (or 'run as administrator') and then this time, started it up a different user (or without elevated privileges)?

Nope, been running it the same way since 2014
The Gate BBS ** telnet://thegatebbs.sytes.net:666
The Gate BBS II ** telnet://thegateb.synchro.net:23
http://thegateb.synchro.net

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