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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Fri Apr 29 14:35:56 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 29 Apr 88 12:24:31 -0400.
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 88 14:34:59 EDT
>Very frequently, I have had the named hang in the middle of a login
>session.
>. . . What happened
>yeterday, was unusual. I logged in, was informed that I had 5 messages,
>and attempted to incorporate my mail. Inc told me I had no mail.
>. . . . . It seems to me that inc
>should have stated something like "ATHENA-PO-1 - host not known"
>instead of telling me that there was no mail waiting.
How often is "very frequently?" I used 5.5T for a very long time, and
didn't experience that sort of problem "very frequently" at all.
inc did the right thing. You see, the MH commands need to know which
post office your mail is kept on (there is one for staff use, and three
or four outside E40), and they use the nameserver to find your
maildrop. If they don't get a response from the nameserver, it
presumes you have a local maildrop (as opposed to one on a post office
server somewhere).
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-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
