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- From: "H.A. Kippenhan Jr." <KIPPENHAN@FNDCD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Lost MAIL.TXT files
- Message-ID: <7924980@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:30 CST
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
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- Some time back I posted a query about lost MAIL.TXT files
- on a system where MX was running along with TGV MultiNet,
- and Joiner's JNET product. The list readership offered
- a number of possible sources of the problem, but no real
- resolution (other than doing frequent ANALYZE/REPAIR's).
-
- I just received this from the people here on site who
- make source kits, patches, etc. available to system
- administrators. I don't have access to DSNlink, so I can't
- provide any more details about the patch than what appears
- below. I hope that those of you who were kind enough to
- reply to my original post about this problem find it of
- some interest.
-
- CSCPAT_1041011
-
- MAIL_SERVER's code assumes that nothing's going to go wrong between
- the time it creates the temporary MAIL.TXT file and the time it
- delivers that mail and subsequently deletes the temporary file.
- This is, of course, a bad assumption. If, for any reason, the mail
- message delivery is aborted, MAIL_SERVER will neglect to delete the
- MAIL.TXT file it created, leaving a lost (not pointed to by any
- directory) file on the disk.
-
- This patch may only be installed on VMS Version(s) 5.4 through 5.5-1.
-
- Best regards.
-
- - Kipp -
-
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