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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: What features would _you_ like in a mailer?
- Message-ID: <Bxtxp2.E2t@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <pauln.720877298@nuustak> <BxtpM2.3tE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:12:37 GMT
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- In article <BxtpM2.3tE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> erisande@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kryst the Philosopher) writes:
- >
- >>Any replies in any form whatsoever will be appreciated.
-
- Something I haven't seen anyone mention yet is reliability with archive
- and recall capability. This can be important in commercial environments.
- I'm running home-rolled version of an old message system that provides
- this. Although I've added gateways in and out to mailers I haven't
- completely replaced it yet, largely because of this function. The
- sender supplies a sequence number in the header which once upon a time
- had to be correct (starting from 1 each day) but now those are mostly
- ignored and a "real" input sequence number is assigned as a message
- is received. As the message is delivered an output sequence is assigned
- to it, and at the end of the day a message is generated showing how
- many messages were received and delivered for each station so everyone
- can tell if they miss or lose any (not too long ago most of the
- stations sent directly to a printer). There is a simple command to
- recall any message by it's input or output station name, date, and
- sequence number (input or output). A few days of activity are always
- on line for quick access, then we archive the input data and
- the output logs needed and can still recall any message through
- the system for the previous year or so.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-