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From: terry@iti.org (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Mail problem under SCO UNIX V/386 Release 3.2 -- Loss of Mail
Message-ID: <1990Aug3.162909.1858@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 16:29:09 GMT
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shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:

[SCO Lost mail problem deleted]

>	Regrettably, we continue to experience such problems. They're
>	traceable to MMDF-II. If you look in /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/*/*
>	you'll likely find the lost mail. 

>	Fortunately for us, we market our own email software (FXMAIL)
>	which provides drop-in replacements for most of the SCO mail
>	components. Replacing their rmail (which feeds into MMDF) with
>	our own (which writes directly to the mailboxes or interfaces
>	to uux) eliminated all problems with remotely posted mail. Only
>	system-generated messages (which use 'mail') continue to be a
>	problem.

I trashed mmdf and replaced it with smail3.  Things seemed to work OK then.  
I used local mail as well as mail via uucp with no hassles.  smail3 is
available on uunet.uu.net.  

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Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
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