home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!aa680
- From: aa680@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vern Morrison)
- Subject: Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.041930.1122@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: slc8.ins.cwru.edu
- Reply-To: aa680@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vern Morrison)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 04:19:30 GMT
- Lines: 30
-
-
- My UNIX site hasn't fully implemented rn yet, so I'm posting
- from another account. I just started using Elm two or three weeks
- ago. Lately, about half the time I get new mail, I'll invoke Elm to
- try to read it, and I'll get a message saying "Folder is corrupt!!
- I can't read it!!" When this happens, I go to the /usr/spool/mail
- directory and try to read the mail using cat. Sometimes this works,
- sometimes it doesn't.
-
- When I use emacs to edit the /user/spool/mail/vern file, I
- find that the screen is flooded with these characters:
- ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^. Once it was ^N@^N@, I think. I am able to
- use ^K to delete the first line of my file, and voila! the ^@s go
- away. I then try to use Elm to read the mail again, and I still
- get the "folder is corrupt" message. Once I didn't--it actually
- allowed me to read from the once-corrupt folder.
-
- Does anyone know why this is happening, and what I can do to
- stop it? I don't remember what version of Elm our site is using.
- I should add that I have mail from this Free-Net account bounced over
- to my Elm-using address, and that lately I've been getting mail from
- CompuServe sites due to my membership in a list. Do these things
- make a difference? Please post replies to this list or mail to my
- Elm-using address: vern@cray.cba.csuohio.edu. Thank you!
- --
- Vern Morrison | "It's the damage that we do and
- aa680@po.cwru.edu | never know/It's the words that
- vern@nauer.csuohio.edu | we don't say that scare me so"
- Parma, Ohio: the 'burbs | --Elvis Costello
-