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- From: ned@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: VMS MAIL_SERVER and undeleted temp files
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- Date: 20 Jul 92 22:43:06 GMT
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- There are two cases where MAIL_SERVER is used. One is with PMDF's incoming
- message processing. The other is with incoming DECnet mail. I suspect that
- the latter is more of an issue; if experience is any indication the use of
- MAIL_SERVER in this way can lead to lots of these files left lying about.
-
- PMDF has no direct involvement; these files are created (and deleted) entirely
- on the whim of MAIL_SERVER. It would seem that a decent exit handler would
- eliminate them unconditionally, but unfortunately this approach is not used
- as far as I know.
-
- In short, this is a problem which, even if some abnormal condition in PMDF
- was the cause (this is totally hypothetical mind you), is totally the
- responsibility of VMS MAIL to clean up properly. Given the fact that these
- are pure scratch files not entered into any directory there is no way for
- PMDF to get a handle on the file even if it wanted to.
-
- Ned
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