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Subject: Re: Problem: mail spool area and .forward on different machines
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Date: 8 Nov 90 14:49:03 GMT
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.mail.sendmail: 7-Nov-90 Re: Problem: mail
spool are.. Dr Lothar Borrmann@ztiva (981)

> Don't you run into trouble when a local mailer wants to do
> "local delivery" to the central mail directory via the network,
> and the net (or the node holding the mail directory) is 
> temporarily down?

We had exactly this problem with AFS, even in its early versions back in
1985.  That's why we rewrote a local mail delivery mechanism, that we
call AMDS, for the Andrew Message Delivery System, available on the
X.V11R4 tape under the Andrew contribution.