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PO9 lossage - again... arrrgh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hoffmann@MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 12 00:31:55 1996
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:31:35 -0400
To: helpstaff@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU
Cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
We had a disk filling incident on PO9 Thursday afternoon. The message
below will be "lert"ed to affected Athena users. We don't have a way
to distinguish or notify non-Athena PO users such as TechMail or
Eudora users.
The corruption problem alluded to below in the "lert" message may
cause Eudora and TechMail to fail to parse some partial messages in
the user's mailbox.
We believe we have repaired user mailboxes such that this problem will
only be evident for one message retrieval. Please notify
postmaster@mit.edu of users reporting persistent problems. Athena
users who have problems and contact the IT helpdesk should be put in
touch with the Athena consultants first.
-Ron Hoffmann
<postmaster@mit.edu>
Referenced Lert message:
During the afternoon of Thursday April 11, the disk on the Post Office server
PO9.MIT.EDU filled causing corruption of mailboxes and some delivery delays.
Your mailbox was one one of the boxes where corruption was found. We have
made every attempt to salvage all information possible. As a result of this
you may have received one or more truncated or duplicate messages.
As a result of the disk filling, it is possible that messages were lost or
returned to the sender.
If you find you are having persistent problems, contact the Athena Online
Consultants either by using the 'olc' command or by calling x3-4435.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
