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From: oberman@LLL-ICDC.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: RE: MAIL and Clusters
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Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 11:01:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  3 11:01:00 1987
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>We have an 8600 and 8650 clustered.  When a user on one node sends VMS MAIL to
>a user on the other node, the recipient is NOT notified... (New mail on node
>NODE from USER). Anyone know why ? 

It sounds suspiciously like you have two copies of SYS$SYSTEM:VMSMAIL.DAT.
To keep the mail system happy if you have a cluster it works best to have
one copy of the VMSMAIL.DAT file in SYS$COMMON:. I also highly recommend
the use of DECnet aliases for clusters with common SYSUAFs.

						R. Kevin Oberman
						LLNL
						arpa: oberman@lll-icdc.arpa
						(415) 422-6955
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