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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: Possible to loose incoming mail?
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- Organization: Population Research Institute
- References: <1992Aug16.161453.7357@candle.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 22:03:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.161453.7357@candle.uucp> root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes:
- >Running elm 2.3PL11, is it possible to loose incoming mail if you are
- >bringing up elm while mail is being delivered?
-
- I've seen elm do quirky things sometimes when new mail arrives.
- Once I was reading a message, and just hit 'i' and then 'Q' to quick-
- quit out. About this time a mail message came in. (I knew cause biff
- went off in my other window) My finger was already on the "Q" key
- and I saw the screen with my list of messages, then resynchronize with
- the new message, then quick-quit out. I realized that I had a
- new message, and went back into elm. When i got there it was gone!
- I managed to find it in my '=inbox' folder. (Where I save incoming mail,
- but only if I explictly ask elm to. My defaults are set to keep messages
- in my mailbox.) Odd!
- What kind of file locking did you specify?
-
- --Dave
- --
- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
- loose: v. to set free, or adj. not securely fastened.
- lose: v. to miss from one's possession.
-