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 In article <829265208_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) said:-

> 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?
>
I got this, once, when lots of emails but no large ones to download.
Perhaps you are nearly right. I would guess that if, for some reason, SMTP
tries to download two emails to the same postbox (can this happen unless
the SMPT listener was somehow started twice) then only one could be added
to the appropriate .TXT file. The other would be saved in a temporary file.
Curious, certainly. It would probably be a lot worrying if Oasis didn't
describe it as "lost"! 
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Brian