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 In article <829242954_OASIS_@land.demon.co.uk>
  Ali@land.demon.co.uk (Alistair Potter) said:-

>Hi all,
>
>I'd appreciate some help.
>
>So there I go, I check to see what's waiting on the mail punts. Wow! 20
>messages, and in no time they're pinging in. When I think it's all over
>I check my SOcket to see there's no action happening. Sometimes even
>recheck the punts... But sadness , when I EXIT they're not all here...
>some of my mail has gone missing. Now there's that odd little message
>that says Sorting Lost Mail. What does that mean?

I wish I knew!

>Is it truly lost forever, or can I in some way send a command
>which allows me to re-access the mail. Bothers me that this stuff gets
>so close then just disappears.

In my case it wasn't. The lost mail got sorted and appeared ok.

>Is it because the NOS/Oasis software is so busy handling all the
>different activities send/recieve mail and send/recieve news plus MOTD
>checks, Punt checks, Listing mail that's ready to go, searching for
>timeservers that are too busy, trying to join the news server, trying
>to access a mail gateway to get e-mail to Australia?

The email previous to the lost one was huge, maybe the disk access 
to save it took so long some emergency code had to come into play?



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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk