wollman@GRIFFIN.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman) (03/09/91)
I have noticed that MS leaves copies of some outbound messages in /tmp, instead of deleting them like it ought. This seems to happen primarily with address validation errors; perhaps someone forgot an unlink somewhere? Or is this a feature? -GAWollman --
gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) (03/15/91)
Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 8-Mar-91 MS leaves some messages in .. Garrett Wollman@griffin. (257) > I have noticed that MS leaves copies of some outbound messages in /tmp, > instead of deleting them like it ought. This seems to happen primarily > with address validation errors; perhaps someone forgot an unlink somewhere? > Or is this a feature? If it is a feature it's dubious. Privacy goes out the window on a public workstation. I have seen this behavior but I just had a validation error and it didn't leave any garbage in /tmp. If you can come up with a reproducible case, then we can fix this up. Gary Keim ATK Group