Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) Technical Support has identified and corrected a problem involving non-delivery of BITNET mail on the DEC OpenVMS system in Oxford (MiaVX1). Last Wednesday (14 June), MCIS switched MiaVX1's mail delivery from using batch queues to using server queues. This change has improved overall mail delivery performance on MiaVX1. One undocumented (and until this morning, unknown) requirement of the switch from batch to server queues was the restart of the process that delivers BITNET mail to accounts on MiaVX1. While Internet mail to and from MiaVX1.MUOhio.Edu has been flowing smoothly for the past week, BITNET mail to MiaVX1 has been accumulating in a queue awaiting restart of its delivery process. Upon investigation of reports of missing incoming BITNET mail, this queue was located this morning, the BITNET delivery process was restarted, and the waiting mail messages were delivered in short order. (The incoming BITNET mail queue consisted of approximately 1,000 messages. By comparison, incoming Internet messages, which constitute the lion's share of electronic mail at Miami, numbered approximately 16,000.) MCIS regrets any inconvenience this event may have caused, and has taken steps to prevent its recurrence. -- John B Harlan Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator Miami University (Ohio USA) http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~HarlanJB/ (513) 529-5330 (513) 529-1496 fax [log in to unmask]