Microsoft KB Archive/112891

PC Rmt: Messages from SPECIAL About MAILBAG and *UPDATE

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

3.20 WINDOWS

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 <> 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 ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1994.