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- From: copeland_rp@corning.com (Richard P. Copeland)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: Re: VMS MAIL_SERVER and undeleted temp files
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.135005.10@corning.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 13:50:05 -0500
- References: <01GMLRT10XTY9FM73V@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
- Organization: Corning Incorporated
- Lines: 35
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- In article <01GMLRT10XTY9FM73V@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>, mitchell%uthscsa.bitnet@ymir.claremont.edu (Scott J. Mitchell) writes:
- > We recently discovered a large number (10,000s) of uncataloged MAIL.TXT
- > files on the system disk of one of our Vaxes. DEC acknowledges that
- > MAIL_SERVER.EXE is creating these temp files and failing to delete them
- > properly, but at the same time they're pointing an ambiguous finger at
- > "non-DEC protocols," suggesting that the problem is more likely to occur
- > when the delivering system is something other than VMSmail. A timestamp
- > comparison suggests that the problem is indeed associated with deliveries
- > relayed by our primary mail host using PMDF.
- >
- > I'm absolutely not suggesting that PMDF has any relationship to this problem,
- > particularly in a causal sense. Just wondering if anyone can shed additional
- > light on the subject. We were caught asleep at the switch and had some
- > difficulty recovering the disk because of a hosed INDEXF.SYS.
- >
- > Scott Mitchell
- > University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- > mitchell@uthscsa.edu
- > mitchell@uthscsa.bitnet
- >
-
- We saw the same behavior on one of our systems ... we got about 6,600 MAIL.TXT
- files before rectifying the problem. We used ANAL/DISK/REPAIR to place them
- all in [SYSLOST], and I took a look at several of them. Occasionally, some
- mail messages sent via PMDF will generate hundreds of duplicate partial copies
- as uncatalogued MAIL.TXT files. The other weird thing is that the files were
- on DIA0 (the system disk), while the recipient was on DIA2. Another weird
- thing is that other systems exhibit no problems whatsoever.
-
- DEC indicates that this is a VMS bug that will be fixed in VMS V5.5-2. Until
- then, we're just going to ANAL/DISK/REPAIR on that system more frequently.
-
- Richard Copeland
- Corning Incorporated, Corning NY
- copeland_rp@corning.com
-