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From: cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  mail problems, mailx query  ( SR 9.7 )
Message-ID: <19695@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 89 01:55:34 GMT
References: <42a28a740.000c6e5@delrio.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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Ok. A couple things I neglected to mention....

In article <42a28a740.000c6e5@delrio.cc.umich.edu> paul@DELRIO.CC.UMICH.EDU ('da Kingfish) writes:
>
>Jeez, bitching about berknet compatibility -:)
		 *&^*%^*&%*&%.   Yup!
>
>I am pretty sure that is why the 'r' command is putting that ':' in
>your address.
>
>Some time ago, someone (precise is my middle name) maybe Chris Torek
>pointed out that deleting one character from a set of characters in the
>mail source and recompiling fixed that.  I believe that was fixed in
>4.3 (sr10), though.


Regretfully, I don't have the source to /usr/ucb/mail.



>
>My only guess for the stuff getting munged in your mailbox is
>conncurrently running mail delivery programs writing into your mailbox
>at the same time.  That would happen, I believe, if the processes were
>on the same node (and the mailbox file could be on any node).  I
>think.  Especially if the files were large, it seems like the
>probability of overlap would be greater.
>
>--paul

OOps, I forgot to say that I am not running on a ring.  This is a stand-
alone machine, talking UUCP to the rest of the world.  I thought about the
possibilities of multiple mail's running concurrently, but that I haven't
been able to catch it.  




Thanks so far...

-charles


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