As part of my corrupt disk issue, my MAIL.MAI file became unacceptable
to MAIL.
Of course, any mail sent to me was being bounced. 

I have recreated a new MAIL.MAI file. But it , of course, lacks pointers
to some 20 stray message files in that directory. 


Is there a way to easily reload those message files so the new MAIL.MAI
has the correct pointers to them ?

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:49:34 -0800, JF Mezei  
<jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote:

> As part of my corrupt disk issue, my MAIL.MAI file became unacceptable
> to MAIL.
> Of course, any mail sent to me was being bounced.
>
> I have recreated a new MAIL.MAI file. But it , of course, lacks pointers
> to some 20 stray message files in that directory.
>
>
> Is there a way to easily reload those message files so the new MAIL.MAI
> has the correct pointers to them ?

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JF Mezei wrote:
> As part of my corrupt disk issue, my MAIL.MAI file became unacceptable
> to MAIL.
> Of course, any mail sent to me was being bounced. 
> 
> I have recreated a new MAIL.MAI file. But it , of course, lacks pointers
> to some 20 stray message files in that directory. 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to easily reload those message files so the new MAIL.MAI
> has the correct pointers to them ?

I googled for "vms corrupted mail.mai" and got many hits.
This seems promising:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_frm/thread/7523aff5abde13de/d2a3f5d23762bbbb?lnk=st&q=vms+corrupted+mail.mai&rnum=3#d2a3f5d23762bbbb

JF Mezei wrote:
:
> I have recreated a new MAIL.MAI file. But it , of course, lacks pointers
> to some 20 stray message files in that directory.
>
>
> Is there a way to easily reload those message files so the new MAIL.MAI
> has the correct pointers to them ?

You need an 'orphan' tool. The following link will find a comp.os.vms
topic witha script I wrote and a program by Jerry Leichter to help with
these problems.


http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/search?group=comp.os.vms&q=hein+vmsmail+orphan&qt_g=1


Hein.