Re: Wanted:MAIL.MAI structure definition

Hello !

Under high load and concurrent access with POP3 and other application to VMS mailbox we have frequent problems when MAIL.MAI is empty but user home contains MAIL$****.MAI files. I'd like to embending an additional functionality to POP3 server to checking losen MAIL$*.MAI files and deleting it. Just for FUY.



Hoff Hoffman wrote:

Ruslan R. Laishev wrote:

I looking for "legal" structure definition of the file MAIL.MAI, I'd like to write some application to automaticaly repairing VMS mailboxes. I found nothing in the starletsd.tlb.


As Hein indicated over in the cited thread at ITRC (in addition to the source code that was posted), there is no formal specification available for this area -- the available specification is effectively the source code to MAIL itself. (And the format is subject to change without notice, and the format of the data has changed over time.)

Also see VFYMAIL and other Freeware tools. VFYMAIL is on Freeware V4. There are other similar tools around. MAILDIR, MAILCOUNT, etc.



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