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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to repeat "new Mail message" ?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:44:13 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1jm4nnINN59b@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1993Jan21.184343.97@ittpub.nl>,<1993Jan24.131726.119790@marshall.wvnet.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.131726.119790@marshall.wvnet.edu>, boag@marshall.wvnet.edu (Bob Boag) writes:
- >Since if you allow VMS Mail to EXIT, as would be the case in the above example,
- >you may find that you have a (possibly) long wait when VMS Mail displays the
- >following message:
- >
- >%MAIL-I-RECLPLSWAIT, reclaiming deleted file space. Please wait..
- >
- >This could easily happen the next time you logged in after using VMS Mail and
- >exiting with the QUIT command, or if you are accidently disconnected, or the
- >system crashes, etc.
- >
- >Using QUIT will not allow VMS Mail to display the new mail message count, and
- >exit without trying to empty your wastebasket (reclaim deleted file space).
-
- First, I think the "not" in your last sentence was extraneous. Second, you
- seem unclear on what reclaiming deleted file space means. Most times, when you
- PURGE your wastebasket folder (as happens when you EXIT with AUTO_PURGE set),
- MAIL, will, for every message in the wastebasket folder:
- 1) Delete any external file associated with the message;
- 2) Mark the record for that message in MAIL.MAI as deleted.
- Period. No attempt to reclaim the deleted file space. When you've accumulated
- enough deleted file space, MAIL will then do a CONVERT/RECLAIM on MAIL.MAI.
- The latter is what the RECLPSWAIT message is talking about, and it happens
- fairly seldom.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-