BAD_MESSAGE (error code 100) from X.400

Cause

X.400 software was working fine. Suddenly message exchanges failed in ma_start_delivery(). It was returning an error code of 100 (BAD_MESSAGE).

ma_start_delivery() call fails when trying to exhange file of more than 900 bytes.

Action

X.400 was restarted with the wrong umask.

et the umask to 0022 and restart software to fix.