I get those occasionally with new lists -- invariably it means that I
either forgot to set up the list archive, or set it up incorrectly.
Fixing that and freeing the list always results in the post
distributing just fine.

Sherry

At 12:57 PM -0400 8/29/01, Stan Horwitz wrote:
>I have a few lists running on the latest Listserv software (with LSMTP)
>under Windows 2000. Every once in a while, I get an error message on one
>of the lists that I find completely confusing. If anyone can shed some
>light on this issue, please let me know.
>
>Here's an example of one of the error messages:
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:54:14 -0400
>Subject: Message ("An error occurred while logging mail to the...")
>
>An error occurred  while logging mail to the archives  of the UNIXFOLK list.
>An incomplete copy of the message might  be present in the archive file. The
>list is being held to prevent further occurrences of this error. Please take
>corrective action  and issue  a "FREE  UNIXFOLK" command  when you  want the
>message to be reprocessed.
>
>Serious error occurred - traceback follows
>------------------------------------------
>  >>> Error X'00D00103' opening file F:\LSV-LISTS\UNIXFOLK\UNIXFOLK.LOG0108 <<<
>  -> Severity: Error
>  -> Facility: Win32 error codes
>  -> Abstract: Unspecified error (32) - Refer to the Win32 online help
>  -> W32 info: The process cannot access the file because it is being
>used by another process.
>
>  -> I/O mode: Record write