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From: eho@cognito.princeton.edu (Eric Ho)
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Subject: System mailboxes corruption under 4.0.1 ??
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Does anyone out there experiencing system mailboxes getting corrupted
under OS 4.0.1 ?   From time to time, messages in our system mailboxes
either got "bitten" in half or got overwritten entirely and when this
happens, almost all the times, I saw a bunch of strange null chars in the
mailbox (using Emacs).  /var/spool/mail resides on the mailserver's local
disk and other clients just nfs-mount that partition from the mailserver.
The mailserver is also acting as a fileserver/terminal-server.  All
incoming/outgoing mail goes thro' this mailserver.

Any pointers will be much appreciated.

Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab.,		Princeton University
voice = 609-987-2819 (x2987)	email = eho@confidence.princeton.edu
					eho@bogey.princeton.edu
regards.

-eric-