Date
31 May 1996
Patch Name
1.1 SITE-SPECIFIC PATCH 1.1-IM3-BD-1
Permanently Restricted
No
Platform
CNS, AT, MC, SMP
Prerequisites
The server must be running VINES version 5.30(0), 5.30(1), 5.50(1),
5.52(5), 5.53(0), 5.53(6), 5.54(0), 5.54(5), 5.54(6), 5.54(10), or
5.54(20).
Does the Patch REBOOT or RESTART the Server
Restart
Problem(s) Fixed
This IM3 V1.1 Mail Service patch contains performance enhancements
and the following fixes:
1. Restoring a single mailbox in Vines Assistant (VA 3.04)
works properly.
SPR: 1016970
2. The mail service no longer cores sporadically when the
janitor runs.
SPR: 1016881
3. Optimizes the mail service so that it is more efficient and
makes fewer disk accesses when retrieving envelope fields
for an API request.
SPR: 1017087
4. Empty mailbox no longer displays 3001 error message.
SPR: 1016811
5. A mail service query on user defined fields works properly.
SPR: 1017090
6. Renaming a mailbox works properly.
SPR: 1017215, 1017505
7. Renaming a mailbox into a mailbox that already exists is allowed.
SPR: 1016289
8. Certified messages from users with certain international characters
will not create garbage in the Beyond Mail 'Received by' field.
SPR: 1017416
9. Performance has been improved for local delivery of messages.
SPR: 1017432
10. Double byte characters are now supported for the double-byte
version of BeyondMail.
SPR: 1017415
11. The folder database design has been changed to use a single
database
per mail service. This decreases the overhead required to update
folder information.
SPR: 1017779
12. Folder names and counts are now properly updated after a rename
folder and upon a restore of an earlier version of IM3.
SPR: 1017629
13. The sender of a message now receives notification when that message
is sent through a gateway and subsequently deleted from the mail
service queues.
SPR: 1016325
14. Improves efficiency of the Mail transfer agent (MTA) by reducing
disk I/O during message resolution and requiring less frequent cost
table updates when there is a high number of network events.
SPR: 1018355
15. The Banyan Mail service (BMS) no longer cores when using BeyondMail
2.2b.
SPR: 1018361
16. The BanyanMail service (BMS) no longer consumes all idle CPU time.
SPR: 1017975
17. When BeyondMail is used and it strips off the ATTRIBS.BND
attachment from a message, the mail service now deletes it
properly so that it does not get sent along when the message
is delivered.
SPR: 1018442
18. The mail service no longer panics when sending a message with
attachments to a gateway built with toolkit revision 4.0 or
earlier.
SPR: 1018713
19. The mail service no longer panics when sending an
MS_MAILBOX_CHANGE alert.
SPR: 1018714
20. The mail service now stops searching for messages in a mailbox
after
detecting a corrupted envelope database.
SPR: 1018712
21. Sending certified messages through an SMTP or X.400 gateway no
longer causes a Mail Service Panic 8.
SPR: 1018942
22. The Resolve queue no longer retains messages having an addressee
field that contains illegal characters, or an invalid number of
characters in the item,group, or organization portion of the
StreetTalk name.
SPR: 1018587
23. Establishes Mail Service attributes <7:70> and <7:71> to allow the
Mail Service to cache aliases for the names of destination mail
services used in REM addresses. Enabling this cache reduces the
number of StreetTalk lookups the Mail Service makes when processing
force-routed messages. By default these attributes are not set and
the cache is inactive. Activate the REM alias cache if your mail
service sends frequent force-routed messages. Attribute <7:70>
activates the cache and determines the number of aliases to cache.
Attribute <7:71> sets the time in minutes names remain in the
cache.
Refer to Technical Bulletin 356 for more information about
configuring this attribute.
SPR: 1018700
24. Establishes Mail Service attribute <7:13> to allow the Mail Service
to override a user's unrestricted ability to send messages to
wildcard addresses in certain cases.Refer to Technical Bulletin 356
for information about configuring this attribute.
SPR: 1018915
SPR(s) Fixed
1016970, 1016881, 1017087, 1016811, 1017090, 1017215, 1017505,
1016289, 1017416, 1017432, 1017415, 1017779, 1017629, 1016325,
1018355, 1018361, 1017975, 1018442, 1018713, 1018714, 1018712,
1018942, 1018587, 1018700, 1018915
Files Changed
vbms, vmanly, bmsup2, convert, mailbox.sh, revcheck, startbms
Special Considerations
This patch supersedes the following patches:
(Each entry lists the corresponding fixes in 1.1-IM3-BD-1)
1.1-IM3-BA-2 (fixes #1-20)
This patch contains performance enhancements for the IM3 V1.1 mail
service. Apply this patch to all Banyan Mail servers running
Intelligent Messaging III Version 1.1 that frequently send
messages to REM addresses.