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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: No new mail notification on satellites in the cluster
Date: 30 Aug 1995 21:14:51 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <421kg1$e0t@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>, rob@rulxho.leidenuniv.nl (Rob van Strien) writes:
=We have a VAXcluster of one boot node and several satellites.
=When I am working on a satellite I don't receive new mail 
=notifications on that node - unless the mail message is sent 
=from the same node or the sender includes the node name at the 
=To:-prompt. Why is the mail notification node-specific, and not 
=user-specific like REPLY for instance?

Because not all clusters are homogenous to the point of sharing both the user
authorization file and the mail profile file, and if these two files aren't
shared, if a user receives mail on one node, he won't necessarily find the new
message automatically when he runs mail on another node in the cluster.

=In my opinion it should 
=be irrelevant to mail on which node of the cluster I'm currently 
=working. Is it possible to change this?

Yes, via the logical name MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS in the system table in executive
mode.  You define it to be a number.  The bits in that number indicate:
	Bit	Meaning
	---	-----------------------------------------------------------
	0	Mail sent to any node in the cluster is delivered directly to
		the mail file specified by the combination of the user's
		default device/directory in the user authorization file and the 
		mail directory specified in the mail profile.  If this bit
		isn't set, then mail addressed to another node in the cluster
		will be sent to that node via DECnet for local delivery.
	1	Mail notification is sent to all nodes in the cluster (this is
		the bit you want to set)
	2	Include the time of delivery in the mail delivery notification
		broadcast
So you want to define MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS to be either 2, 3, 6, or 7.
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Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.