[comp.os.vms] New mail announcement on a VAX cluster

JMS%uamis@RVAX.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU.UUCP (11/06/87)

Someone asked about getting mail notification on other
nodes in a cluster.

1) shame on you.  read the manual.  on page Mail-14 of the
manual is a clear description of how to do what you want to
do

2) for the records:

the logical name MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS (defined using the qualifiers
/SYSTEM and /EXECUTIVE_MODE ($ define/sys/exec mail$system_flags 1)
is interpreted in the following way:

Bit 0 (decimal 1)

Indicates that this node is part of a homogeneous cluster.  Indicates
that there is common SYSUAF and a common VMSMAIL for the cluster.
This means that the local node need only use cluster I/O, not DECnet
I/O to deliver mail to members of the cluster (you are using a cluster
alias, aren't you?)

Bit 1 (decimal 2)

Directs mail to use the cluster breakthrough flag when using the $BRKTHRU
system service.  This is what the fellow that asked wants. 

Bit 2 (decimal 4)

Directs mail to include the time in notification messages.

So, if you had a homogeneous cluster and wanted cluster-wide notification
of mail, do this

$ define/system/exec mail$system_flags 3


jms

+-------------------------------+
| Joel M Snyder                 |            BITNET: jms@arizmis.BITNET
| Univ of Arizona Dep't of MIS  |          Internet: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu
| Tucson, Arizona 85721         |   Pseudo-PhoneNET: (602) 621-2748
+-------------------------------+              ICBM: 32 13 N / 110 58 W

NOTE: if you get more than one copy of this, please let me know. we
may have a broken mailer somewhere on campus!