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- From: scocc@thor.cf.ac.uk (Chris Cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Disappearing messages
- Message-ID: <12926.9212210930@thor.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:30:20 GMT
- Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System)
- Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK
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- We seem to have a problem with Elm losing existing as new messages arrive -
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- | A few minutes before 5 pm on Friday I was using elm and had just sent a
- | message, when another arrived simultaneously. I think that this was the
- | reason for an error message
- |
- | newmbox - length of mbox != spool mailbox length!!
- | Write to temp file failed, exiting leaving mailbox intact.
- |
- | Unfortunately, it appears to have deleted 13 new, unread messages - some
- | of which were rather important
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- I also noticed this at a similar time. Is it likely to recurr? Does anyone
- know what went wrong? We have Elm v 2.3 PL11 on a Dec 5830
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- Got to go. System about to be taken down.
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- Chris Cook
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