Re: New mail announcement broadcast to users should be clusterwide

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From: Heribert Dahms
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:40

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In <1992Nov11.165031.2823@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:

> We have installed MX3.1C on VMS 5.5-1 .
> The MX processes are running only on our boot node in the LAVC cluster.
> The new mail flag in UAF is set correctly, but the broadcast is sent only
> to the logged in terminals of the corresponding user at the boot node and not
> to this user clusterwide as what is expected like VMS mail. This is very
> annoying, because our users should'nt log in on the boot server of course.
> 
> Is that already a known problem? I'm new in this newsgroup.
> 
> Thanks, Heribert

I solved the problem by
	DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS 7
and restarting MX. (see Chap. 9 of the "VMS Mail Utility Manual")

This solution is thanks to Matt Madison (madison@TGV.COM).
The same was true for DECnet mail, but we hadn't noticed that.

Heribert

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From: DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heribert Dahms)
Subject: Re: New mail announcement broadcast to users should be clusterwide
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