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- From: kenji@reseau.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mail not leaving my machine
- Message-ID: <Gt1WC.326@reseau.macrofield.or.jp>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:04:54 GMT
- References: <2147@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
- Reply-To: kenji@reseau.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Macrofield Corporation, Toyonaka-city, Osaka, Japan
- Lines: 18
- Posting-Front-End: Terakoya-u kaku 2.05 DEBUG July 13, 1991
-
- In article <2147@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
- hontanon@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes:
- >HELP! I've just been put in charge of a VAXStation (fdavax.cber.nih.gov)
- >whose VMS MAIL program seems to be having problems. I receive mail OK,
- >but the outgoing mail is just not reaching its destination without
- >any warning or bounced-mail notification, it simply disappears.
-
- VMS MAIL does not spool outgoing messages and tries to establish a link
- to the destination host immediately. And failed mail messages will be
- disappeared.
-
- Use MX (at gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/VMS/MX*) or other free software
- utilities to provide spooling ability.
-
- // Kenji
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- "Cyberspace, in its present condition, has a lot in common with the 19th
- Century West." -- John Perry Barlow, EFF, "Crime & Puzzlement"
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