Re: Mail not leaving my machine

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From: Kenji Rikitake
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:04

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In article <2147@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
	hontanon@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes:
>HELP! I've just been put in charge of a VAXStation (fdavax.cber.nih.gov)
>whose VMS MAIL program seems to be having problems. I receive mail OK,
>but the outgoing mail is just not reaching its destination without
>any warning or bounced-mail notification, it simply disappears.

VMS MAIL does not spool outgoing messages and tries to establish a link
to the destination host immediately. And failed mail messages will be
disappeared.

Use MX (at gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/VMS/MX*) or other free software
utilities to provide spooling ability.

// Kenji
-- 
"Cyberspace, in its present condition, has a lot in common with the 19th
 Century West."          -- John Perry Barlow, EFF, "Crime & Puzzlement"

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From: kenji@reseau.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail not leaving my machine
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Date: 28 Jul 92 01:04:54 GMT
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