Subj : Re-attach abandoned mail archives?
To   : Bob Jones
From : Johan Zwiekhorst
Date : Thu Oct 09 2003 01:00 am

Hi Bob!

In your message to me, dated <Tuesday October 07 2003 21:44>, you wrote:

JZ>> Does anyone here have or know of a utility which can
JZ>> detect abandoned mail archives (mailarchives without an
JZ>> entry in the corresponding flow file) in a binkley-
JZ>> style outbound directory and re-attach them to the node
JZ>> they were destined for? I would like an OS/2 utility,
JZ>> but a DOS utility will do fine as well. No Windows here.

>BJ: Possibly BONK (DOS) or SOB (Son of Bonk), if I am remembering the
>BJ: utilities correctly.....  Bonk allowed for some cleanup of the
>BJ: outbound mail directories.  I'm not sure of all the options it allows
>BJ: with orphaned files....  It's been a while since I've used such a
>BJ: utility.

BONK and SOB both clean up the outbound by deleting stray files. Neither will
re-attach stray mail archives.

>BJ: Yaboom also comes to mind, but I don't remember the details for that
>BJ: utility....

I can't find that one on the internet...

Kind regards,

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