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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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  10. Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:26:04 GMT
  11. Sender:       PMDF Distribution List <PMDF-L@IRLEARN>
  12. From:         "Scott J. Mitchell" <MITCHELL@UTHSCSA>
  13. Subject:      VMS MAIL_SERVER and undeleted temp files
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  18. We recently discovered a large number (10,000s) of uncataloged MAIL.TXT
  19. files on the system disk of one of our Vaxes.  DEC acknowledges that
  20. MAIL_SERVER.EXE is creating these temp files and failing to delete them
  21. properly, but at the same time they're pointing an ambiguous finger at
  22. "non-DEC protocols," suggesting that the problem is more likely to occur
  23. when the delivering system is something other than VMSmail.  A timestamp
  24. comparison suggests that the problem is indeed associated with deliveries
  25. relayed by our primary mail host using PMDF.
  26.  
  27. I'm absolutely not suggesting that PMDF has any relationship to this problem,
  28. particularly in a causal sense.  Just wondering if anyone can shed additional
  29. light on the subject.  We were caught asleep at the switch and had some
  30. difficulty recovering the disk because of a hosed INDEXF.SYS.
  31.  
  32. Scott Mitchell
  33. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  34. mitchell@uthscsa.edu
  35. mitchell@uthscsa.bitnet
  36.