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From: irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Mail problem under SCO UNIX V/386 Release 3.2 -- Loss of Mail
Message-ID: <21@happym.wa.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 16:04:50 GMT
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Organization: Happy Man Corp., Seattle
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The mail program is smart enough to notice new mail that arrives while the
user is looking at existing mail; it notifies him with an "h"-type line for
the new message.  Unfortunately, it does not appear to be smart enough to
handle a second piece of mail arriving while processing of the first piece is
taking place:

If two messages arrive from another system in the same uucp session for a user 
while he is in mail, one of the messages can get lost.  The uucp logs on both 
ends show successful passing of both pieces of mail, but the user is only 
notified of the first piece and the second piece goes to never-never-land (at 
least sometimes). 

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Does anyone know of a solution, short of dumping SCO's mail program and
replacing it with something more reliable?
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