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On Thu Jan  4 23:40:59 1996 Frank Seltzer wrote:
>>On Thu, 4 Jan 1996 deasey@server1.netpath.net wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that xfmail seems to segfault about every hour and a half on sign
>> al 11 
>> anyone else have this problem ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> --Jeff
>
>You are not the only one experiencing this problem. I have had this 
>happen to me as well, trashing all unread messages when xfmail core dumps.
>It caused me to start using pine in an xterm window which works fine.
>
>Frank

by the way if you are reading a message and walk away for 4 hours it never 
crashes.  only when there are no messages.  I'l bet this happens when it checks
with trashed mail, like it trashes mail and forgets the lock or something.