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- From: taube@isa.de (Christian Taube)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Possible to loose incoming mail?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.162844.19966@isa.de>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:28:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.161453.7357@candle.uucp>
- Sender: usenet@isa.de
- Organization: ISA GmbH, Stuttgart, FRG
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- root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes:
- >I ask because I think it just happened. My mail file was big, so it
- >took about 30 seconds to start up. During that time, newmail told me I
- >had received mail several messages, and I did because my uucp feed had
- >just connected, but when I got into elm, there was no new mail at all.
-
- Is there a chance that by receiving these messages your home
- dir was filled up? _If_ your $HOME is full and you get mail
- and there's "no space left on device," your mail goes nowhere.
- Has happened to me.
-
- Christian
-
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- Christian Taube (taube@isa.de), ISA GmbH, 7000 Stuttgart 1, Germany
- Any opinions expressed are mine, and mine only! Thought for today:
- These are the warp drives of the Romulan "Enterprise." Her 5-year mission -
- to forcibly go where no race has gone before.
-