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From: dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: mail
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Date: 16 May 89 19:52:16 GMT
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In article <4341a7bf1.0017b5e@caen.engin.umich.edu> markg@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Mark Giuffrida) writes:

> ... We modified SENDMAIL extensively to work in a distributed
> environment.  One of the changes is to accomodate Apollo's file
> locking.  If the mailbox cannot be opened for write, it simply leaves
> the message queued (it will not bounce) and tries again later. ...
> The sendmail Apollo ships is a straight port from BSD and it isn't
> specifically modified to handle the situations that arise in a
> distributed environment.

Hooray!  This locking problem has been a plague since we started using
Berkeley Mail and sendmail seriously a year ago.  We only handle
100-200 deliveries a day, but our users have to be trained to execute
'mailq' before executing or exiting Mail.  Ugly!

How can I get your modified version, Mark?  Is it specific to SR9.x or
SR10.x?                                                     --Dennis

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