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From: joe@proto.UUCP (Joe Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Email/MMDF delivery failures - help needed
Summary: MMDF fails for me too.  "/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver -b -clocal" helps.
Message-ID: <1297@proto.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 16:59:55 GMT
References: <109@mixcom.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Prototronics; Sandpoint, Idaho
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In article <109@mixcom.UUCP>, sysop@mixcom.UUCP (System Operator) writes:
> I am running SCO UNIX Sys V 3.2.  I have an email problem.
> Email from other machines does not always get delivered.
> It usually does, but not always.  Sometimes it gets delivered
> with a garbled header.  
.
. [stuff deleted]
.
> Can someone suggest ideas why email from certain machines sometimes
> gets delivered and other times is dumped into the directory
> mentioned above?  The email has a correct address (user name).
> The machine has plenty of disk space.

I have the same problem.  I haven't associated it with a particular 
machine/route for the mail source.  I use the above mentioned command to
make sure everything gets delivered.  And I have uucheckque run once a
day and mail me the status.  I just started doing this a week ago.  I
haven't really figured out the cause yet.  I suspect, but haven't tested it
yet, that it may be related to VP/ix running at the same time mail comes in.
Not allways of course, just sometimes, it may be load related.

I haven't sent in a bug report yet because I didn't have it isolated enough
...

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