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From: aab@cichlid.com (Andrew A. Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Mail problem under SCO UNIX V/386 Release 3.2 -- Loss of Mail
Message-ID: <1990Aug4.083706.9563@cichlid.com>
Date: 4 Aug 90 08:37:06 GMT
References: <21@happym.wa.com> <17@raysnec.UUCP>
Reply-To: aab@cichlid.com (Andrew A. Burgess)
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Organization: Consulting Software Engineer, Felton CA
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In article <17@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
>
>>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). 
>
>	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. 

Thanks for the valuable information Ray. 
Everyone with SCO UNIX still running mmdf should do:
  vi /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg/*
right now. You'll be amazed at all the mail you never saw!
Smail here I come!

Andy

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Andy Burgess
Consulting Software Engineer
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