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

>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?

     While writing OASIS we discovered that sometimes, for reaseons I can't
explain, NOS puts some incoming mail into the outgoing folder! So when you
log off, OASIS looks for this and places it with the rest of your incoming
mail ready for the Post Box to index it when you next open it.

>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.

     NO
>
>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?

     No idea.
>
>Would it work any better if these activities could be managed more?  

     I can find no cure for this problem at all, that's why we had to write
the 'Lost Mail' routine.

     I Hope this helps.

     TTFN


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