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Article #1863Re: Missing my mail :-(
From: Alistair Potter
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
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> 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?
>
>
>--
Thanks a lot Phil, I was getting worried there.
Ali.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112f4b,e7584e24eb914296 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4b,public From: Ali@land.demon.co.uk (Alistair Potter) Subject: Re: Missing my mail :-( Date: 1996/04/11 Message-ID: <829345362_OASIS_@land.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 147197799 x-nntp-posting-host: land.demon.co.uk reply-to: Ali@land.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.ip.support.atari organisation: Writer