PC Rmt: Messages from *SPECIAL About *MAILBAG and *UPDATE

PSS ID Number: Q112891
Article last modified on 04-08-1994

3.20
WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Mail Remote for MS-DOS, version 3.2
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When you use Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows, you can get messagesfrom
*SPECIAL with subjects of either *MAILBAG or *UPDATE.
If you call again, EXTERNAL.EXE recognizes the messages and cleans up.
Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows uses these messages as part of
itstransfer protocol.
If the user doesn't call again the messagaes are left in the inbox and can
be viewed by other clients.
The LAN mail driver can intercept them if you are using Inbox-shadowing.
This can cause problems in your message store file (.MMF). It is always
recommended that you do not leave a PC running the Network Windows Mail
client and then access your mail simultaneously from another PC with
Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows.

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When EXTERNAL.EXE receives a request for headers it creates this mail item
and puts it in the users inbox.  If, for some reason, the connection is
lost, this file is left in the inbox. If the user calls again EXTERNAL.EXE
recognizes it and cleans up.
Running a Windows client you can see a message like this:
   From: *SPECIAL
   To: Christie Powers
   Subject: *MAILBAG
   Date: Wednesday, December 21, 1988 8:53AM
   <<File Attachment: *MAILBAG>>
   *MAILBAG
You'll get this a lot if people leave mail running at work while connecting
remotely. The LAN driver isn't designed to leave this piece of mail alone
and will copy it down to the Windows Message Store file (.MMF). If you
don't use inbox shadowing this can even cause problems with the remote
session.

Additional reference words: 3.20
KBCategory:
KBSubCategory: MailPCRmt
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