PMDF System Manager's Guide

If an attempt to send mail using the PMDF foreign protocol prefix in VMS MAIL results in the message

%MAIL-E-ERRACTRNS, error activating transport IN

then it is likely that PMDF has not been started on the system. Check to see that the system is properly licensed for PMDF and, if so, that the PMDF startup command procedure has been run. Additional message text can accompany the above error indicating problems such as failure to install protected shareable images. If PMDF images are not getting installed as known files, you should check that INSTALL has not run out of GBLPAGES or GBLSECTIONS.

If you are trying to send to PMDF from a non-PMDF node in a cluster and are encountering this error, check whether the OpenVMS MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS logical has been defined, and specifically been defined to have an odd value (bit 0 set).