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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Subject: Re: How to repeat "new Mail message" ?
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- References: <1993Jan21.184343.97@ittpub.nl> <1993Jan24.131726.119790@marshall.wvnet.edu> <1jvgldINNjtu@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:00:05 GMT
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- In article <1jvgldINNjtu@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >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.
-
- Technically, it shouldn't happen at all in this case. If the user has
- AUTOPURGE on, there won't be any mail messages in the wastebasket when
- mail is first fired up (unless the user is running mail under a different
- login). So, with no mail commands executed, nothing will make it into
- the wastebasket, nothing will get purged, and mail won't have to reclaim
- space.
-
- >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.
-
- Darrin
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