"David Scott Cunningham, TRIUMF, 604 222-1047" writes:
>
>Apologies if this has been noticed before and fixed, but:
>
>I had a user who'd set up his mail to place the MAIL.MAI in a subdirectory
>called MAIL.DIR (the old MAIL>SET MAIL_DIRECTORY [.MAIL] business), and
>had created a text file called MAIL.TXT also in his root.  Suddenly people
>started calling him saying that his account would not accept MX mail,
>that it was being returned by postmaster with the error 'privilege or
>file protection violation'.  I sent him some test messages and that
>was the result I got as well.
>
This has been discussed a couple of times.  MX is finding the MAIL.TXT
file and writing the mail to that file.  This only happens if you're
running MultiNet and the user has a MAIL.TXT file, which is the name
of file MM uses.

I have .EXEs that will disable delivery to the MAIL.TXT files.  If you
want them, ftp to ftp.spc.edu, user anonymous, CD to [.MX.BETA] and
get either MX_NO_MM_AXP.ZIP or MX_NO_MM_VAX.ZIP.  These .ZIP files
contains new MX_LOCAL.EXE and MCP.EXE files that, by default, will not
allow delivery via MM.  A new command, SET LOCAL/MM_DELIVER, has been
added to MCP to let you enable delivery.

This will be included in MX V3.4.

Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET (or goathunter%wkuvx1.bitnet@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU)

This material is the patches mentioned.

Note please that considerable material from Hunter's mailserver and
Terry Kennedy's FTP site is in the [.tk] directory here also.