Re: Wanted:MAIL.MAI structure definition

From: Hoff Hoffman <hoff-remove-this@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:25:46 GMT

Ruslan R. Laishev wrote:

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.

Sounds like there's a bug somewhere, and I'm not sure I'd want to have a POP3 tool deleting files from underneath MAIL. (I'd be as interested in why there's an error like this lurking, and what software here is at fault.)

The code necessary to verify the component MAIL files is available on the Freeware. It's known as VFYMAIL, IIRC.
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