| RE: .1 Thanks for that very informative and helpful reply mike, bad day?
RE: .0
Mike is right, you are looking for trouble. The root of the trouble
is that DFS (and VMS RMS is partially to blame) does not support opening
files for shared write access. With this restriction, when you open your
mail, anyone else who tries to open your mail is in trouble because
the file access will fail as DFS has opened the file for exclusive access.
(Notes also runs into this problem if you have a batch job that opens
updates your notebook while the notes window is open)
Anyway, Nmail probably tries to do something with your mail on
the first try, fails and thus requeues itself to run in 20 minutes.
Another side effect is that you cannot receive mail while you're reading
your mail (or when the mail file is open). This can be a big problem.!
I tried to live with this for a while, and then tried another tact, which
also was difficult because of the way that RMS deals with search lists.
I kept my mail on my workstation, and everything else on my DFS served
disks. I then made my default "disk" a search list that started
on the DFS end, and ended on the local end. Unfortunately, when
RMS looks for something, and doesn't find it, it then looks in the
second place. If the directory doesn't exist, it returns fatal errors
of directory not found, not file not found, and thus lots of other things
blow up and don't work right. (TPU is one, DECwrite is another)
So, I ended up dumping DFS as I couldn't live with these restrictions,
and got my managment to buy me a disk. If I were a real, paying
DFS customer, I wouldn't be all taht happy.....
-bill
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| RE: .2
Yup, at times...
The reason I didn't go into it is because it's already been
covered MANY times over in the DFS conference and been mentioned
many times to the management that oversee's the system management
of DELNI. (I used to manage DELNI. I know of what I type) Yet, they
are still, or were until recently maybe, still trying to foist DFS
upon the users.
Don't get me wrong, DFS is GREAT what what it's intended to do. But
it just plain won't work for something like this.
mike
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| Am I missing something, or is there a reason you are not just running the mail
application with the output display set to your workstation? I have DECwindows
MAIL running on the 8800 in our cluster, and the display on my VS2000/GPX. It
runs beautifully. My workstation mail profile has forwarding set to the
cluster, and I don't use that mail file for anything.
_JP
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