Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:24:00 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail digestion Message-ID: <199701310154.MAA04589@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701301704.KAA22180@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 30, 97 10:04:42 am"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > Elm appears to have just eaten all my outstanding mail (some 200+ items). > > > > If you were expecting a response from me on something, you'll need to > > send it again. 8( > > Describe the event. It may be in your "received" folder (to access, > "elm -f =received"). It may be that your tmp got full on the save, > or some other event occured, where it ran out of space and bailed. > Typically, this will leave a file in /tmp or /usr/tmp, etc., which > you can recover by catting it onto your mail file. I've been using elm for probably close to a decade now, so I think I have a reasonable idea of its failure modes 8) The 'event' was the key sequence 'd$<ctrl-right>' : delete message, update folder, swap virtual (fvwm) screen. When I returned to the screen with elm (running in an xterm over a slow ssh session), I had no messages in my inbox. /var/mail/msmith and /tmp/mbox.msmith were both size zero. The last message in my received folder is dated november. There's no NFS in the picture anywhere; all I can think of is a race between elm and mail.local in locking the mailbox. 8( > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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