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Mail notification in cluster

The Question is:

In a VMS cluster, is it possible to set up the mail
notification system so that a user is notified that they
have new mail no matter which node they are on?  From
what I've been able to determine, the mail$server entity
exists only in the mind of DECNET, and DECNET is node-
specific in our clusters.  If the nodes share their DECNET
object file, would this resolve the problem?

The Answer is:

This is accomplished by defining the system logical name MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS to
have a value of 7.

	$define/system/exec mail$system_flags 7

For more information on this, please see the MAIL Utility manual.