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From: dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Apollo E-Mail packages
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Date: 15 Mar 89 16:08:24 GMT
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> Hello.  I'd like to tap the net.knowledge to determine what E-Mail
> packages are currently available for Apollo workstations.

We are using BSD Mail and sendmail with connections to the outside
world through an Ethernet SMTP gateway.  It works, but at SR9.7 there
is a bug which has kept the number of Apollo mail receivers down to
about 10 (out of a possible 40 -- the rest continue to use a BSD VAX
for mail).

The bug is due to a locking problem: if you happen to be starting
Mail, quitting it, or otherwise updating your spool file, and if your
node is not the one that sendmail is running on, then sendmail sees
that your spool file is locked and returns the mail to the sender with
an error message.  Very annoying!

Does anyone know if this problem has been fixed in SR10.1?

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis