NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/4182

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From: [e-mail] (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Multiple messages in one??
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Date: 23 Jan 93 03:09:44 GMT
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[e-mail] (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
>   I am hoping someone can help me out here.  I am using Elm 2.4 PL2 on an
>RS/6000 model 220 running AIX 3.?.  In the past few days I have been getting
>multiple mail messages under one title in the index.
>   For example I was reading my mail this morning and opened up a note from
>a fellow up in New Hampshire.  His note was there but appended directly to
>the end of it was a note (header intact) from someone else at an entirely
>different site.  I marked everything for deletion except the one item
>with two notes in it.  I quit Elm and then went back in.  This time only
>the first of the two notes was there.
>   I suspect something on my system because this has just started to
>happen and I have not changed Elm.  Also yesterday, I tried quitting Elm
>and then going back in and looking again.  It seemed that it would still
>join two notes together in one, but not always the same two notes.
>Plain old mail read them separately with no problem.
>   Anybody have any suggestions or fixes?

Early versions of Elm 2.4 had a problem with messages with bad content
length headers, and the symptoms are just as described.  I'd update
to a more recent version when 21 comes out in a bit.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP          Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                 Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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