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In article <10031995143509um@flyhmstr.demon.co.uk>
           mark@flyhmstr.demon.co.uk "Mark Lowes" writes:

>  
> On Tue, 03 Oct 95 11:10:52 GMT, in <812718652snz@galdr.demon.co.uk>
>  Alex Kashko <Alex@galdr.demon.co.uk> wrote.....
> 
> >       Last night I had ten mails to send. Nine went off. The tenth, a mere
> >3K sat there for ten minutes then the line dropped.

> >       The message id was less than the number in sequence.seq  Could that
> >       explain it? Obviously the system sent smaller messages first and it
> >       could be a sequence problem.
> 
> Irrelevant, the sequence file just determines the next message id to be
> generated for a news or mail posting.

Almost.  It actually is used to record the LAST id used for mail and
separately for the dos text and envelope files used in mailing both mail
and also in mailing news to mail2news.  It is never the next of anything
nor the ID for news posts.

> >       And if it happens again how do I cure it on the fly? I couldn't get a
> >       dos shell for some reason. That may have been caused by the ftp sessi
> >       I had earlier

The only thing to do "on the fly" is to change smtp gateway.  Something
to do off-line is to redirect the mail to % hack off post.demon.co.uk.

> cc'd to email

idem

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   Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM                  email: tgold@panix.com
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