Email/MMDF delivery failures - help needed

[J.Bevier @ Home on Hipeak]

In article <1297 at proto.UUCP>, joe at proto.UUCP (Joe Huffman) writes:
> In article <109 at mixcom.UUCP>, sysop at mixcom.UUCP (System Operator) writes:
> > I am running SCO UNIX Sys V 3.2.  I have an email problem.
> > Email from other machines does not always get delivered.
> > It usually does, but not always.  Sometimes it gets delivered
> > with a garbled header.  
> .
> . [stuff deleted]
> .
> > Can someone suggest ideas why email from certain machines sometimes
> > gets delivered and other times is dumped into the directory
> > mentioned above?  The email has a correct address (user name).
> > The machine has plenty of disk space.
> 
> I have the same problem.  I haven't associated it with a particular 
> machine/route for the mail source.  I use the above mentioned command to
> make sure everything gets delivered.  And I have uucheckque run once a
> day and mail me the status.  I just started doing this a week ago.  I
> haven't really figured out the cause yet.  I suspect, but haven't tested it
> yet, that it may be related to VP/ix running at the same time mail comes in.
> Not allways of course, just sometimes, it may be load related.
> 
> I haven't sent in a bug report yet because I didn't have it isolated enough
> ...
> 
> -- 
> joe at proto.uucp
> uunet!proto!joe
> FAX: 208-263-8772


	I had the same problem.  I was told that if two pieces of
mail are trying to be delivered at the same time, one gets put
into the q.local directory.  You must run deliver as a deamon task.
By default, it runs every 10 mins. It will deliver the mail.  Put it
in your rc files.  Use the following entry in /etc/rc.d/7/udaemons
file.


#	@(#) udaemons.sh 1.2 89/06/23 
#
#	Copyright (C) The Santa Cruz Operation, 1985.
#	This Module contains Proprietary Information of
#	The Santa Cruz Operation, Microsoft Corporation
#	and AT&T, and should be treated as Confidential.
#
#	/etc/rc.d/7/userdaemon - User daemons started after normal boot
#
#	start up mail delivery system
/bin/su mmdf -c "/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver -b -clocal,uucp,list"
echo "MMDF daemon deliver started"


This should fix you problem, it did for me.

	Jim Bevier

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