Mail problem under SCO UNIX V/386 Release 3.2 -- Loss of Mail

[Andrew A. Burgess]

In article <17 at raysnec.UUCP> shwake at raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>irv at happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
>
>>If two messages arrive from another system in the same uucp session for a user 
>>while he is in mail, one of the messages can get lost.  The uucp logs on both 
>>ends show successful passing of both pieces of mail, but the user is only 
>>notified of the first piece and the second piece goes to never-never-land (at 
>>least sometimes). 
>
>	Regrettably, we continue to experience such problems. They're
>	traceable to MMDF-II. If you look in /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/*/*
>	you'll likely find the lost mail. 

Thanks for the valuable information Ray. 
Everyone with SCO UNIX still running mmdf should do:
  vi /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg/*
right now. You'll be amazed at all the mail you never saw!
Smail here I come!

Andy

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Andy Burgess
Consulting Software Engineer
uunet!silma!cichlid!aab
aab at cichlid.com