carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP (11/24/87)
The VMS 4.6 upgrade doesn't handle VMSMAIL.DAT properly. It apparently constructs a new VMSMAIL.DAT from SYSUAF.DAT, and therefore doesn't preserve mail directories or forwarding.
ABSTINE@CLVMS.CLARKSON.EDU (AB Stine) (11/30/87)
I did 3 v4.6 upgrades and didn't have this problem with any of them.
art stine
network analyst
clarkson umiw@uqcspe.UUCP (11/30/87)
In article <871124024639.016@CitHex.Caltech.Edu> carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU writes: >The VMS 4.6 upgrade doesn't handle VMSMAIL.DAT properly. It apparently >constructs a new VMSMAIL.DAT from SYSUAF.DAT, and therefore doesn't preserve >mail directories or forwarding. I don't know exactly what happened in Carl's case, but we certainly had no such problems here when we upgraded from VMS 4.5 to 4.6. Our mail directories and forwarding was left intact. Perhaps the upgrade was from an earlier version than 4.5? Mark Williams ccwilliams%wombat.decnet.uq.oz@uunet.uu.net (ARPA) -- The views expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer. In a couple of hours they may not even be my own. Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious creature on Earth.