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 In article <4139_pbaker@mettav.demon.co.REMOVE.TO.REPLY.uk>
  pbaker@mettav.demon.co.REMOVE.TO.REPLY.uk (Paul Baker) said:-

>In a previous message marc@lobotomy.demon.co.uk  wrote 
> > Organization: Lobotomies 'R' Us
> > 
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I've noticed that I get a number of emails (my wife does, actually -
> > from a mail list) which don't quite make it to the nos\spool\mail
> > directory along with all the rest.  As it arrives, I get a message
> > saying that the delivery has failed and it is being added to the delay
> > queue (whatever that is).  They
> > actually get put in the mqueue (outgoing) directory.
> > 
> > First of all, why might they not be delivered in the first place?  Is
> > it perhaps the volume of traffic from the mail list makes the incoming
> > mailbox busy?  That's my only guess; perhaps someone might elucidate.
> > 
> > Second, can I restore them so that they are incoming again?  Would it
> > be OK simply to append them to the incoming mailbox file?
> > 
> > BTW, I'm using NOS 0.45.
> > 
>
>AH!....I get that too....I wondered what it was...

Yep, me too.

I don't know why it does it, most of the time I get the 'Sorting Lost Mail'
dialogue and it seems to get delivered to the correct mailbox.
Othertimes, however, it doesn't. One day I just happened to be looking in the
Spool/Mail directory, when I discovered some spurious files.
They turned out to be mail that hadn't been delivered correctly and the
filenames were as they should be, but had been prefixed with a < symbol.
For example, I had files named <paz.eml and <paz.idx .

So, I created another postbox called Lostmail and went back into the
Spool/mail directory, re-named the <*.eml and <*.idx files to lostmail.eml
and lostmail.idx, then went back into Oasis and re-filed 'em to the proper
postboxes.

That said, I dunno why mine were in the Mail folder butt yours were in the
Mqueue one :|

See ya,

Paz.
    
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