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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!dscomsa!vxdesy.desy.de!pawlak
- From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: MAIL problems (not NEWMAIL count this time :-)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.113047.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Lines: 37
- Sender: usenet@dscomsa.desy.de (usenet)
- Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:30:47 GMT
-
- Environment:
- VAX-VMS 5.5-1
- Motif 1.1
- Hardware:
- uVAX II (plase, don't laugh) displaying on a VAXStation (via DECNET).
-
- Problem: usign DECWindows MAIL I composed a message and tried to send it out
- (with a copy to myself). What I saw in the Message window was:
-
- Sending mail...
- Message sent to user ... at ....
- Error sending to user PAWLAK.
- Error writing DUA1:[PAWLAK.MAIL]MAIL.MAI;1.
- Duplicate key detected (DUP not set).
- Send completed with errors.
-
- There is no Facility/Ident in these messages, but the text sounds like
- RMS DUP message (Duplicate key in indexed file and no DUPLICATES ALLOWED
- attribute set). The questions is how does MAIL construct the key then? I
- tried to send the message again (to myself only), changing the Subject
- field - nothing, I still can't put this one specific message into my
- MAIL.MAI. So it seems that neither send time nor header contents have
- anything to do with it. I checked that I can send myself other messages
- and that others can send messages to me - so the MAIL.MAI file structure
- seems OK. Any ideas how to get the message stored in my mail file?
-
- And, when I'm already at this: in the above configuration I sometimes
- experience veeery long delays when writing message in the MAIL create
- window (by very long I mean up to 10 minutes). Watching the process
- shows that it is CPU bound during that time and does only very little
- I/O or paging. This feature forces me often to change editor when
- composing longer messages. Maybe somebody knows what is my uVAX so
- busily computing? Not that it's very important (DECWindows EVE uses
- CPU as and editor should, and I can always switch to it) - call it
- curiosity...
-
- Michal (pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de)
-