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- From: minor@rtsg.mot.com (Kevin Minor)
- Subject: Re: Filter problems
- Message-ID: <minor.715032906@coal8>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <66990@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:15:06 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- gt7237a@prism.gatech.EDU (Matt Le Blanc) writes:
-
- |>Hmmm. Anyone know why my filter works only sometimes. Seems that it
- |>only works when I first log off. Then, after a while after I logged
- |>off, the filter stops working and when I log back in, none of the new
- |>mail is filtered. Thanks for any help.
-
- I've observed tons of filter problems. Lost mail. Spool corruption, etc.
-
- Unfortunately, I can't help with your problem.
-
- I talked to Syd a while back about my problems and he seemed to indicate
- problems with how NFS operates. But it never explained how other mail
- agents could handle what ELM could not under in the same environment.
- I mean read and writing to the spool file is something that is normally
- easily handled by mail agents (runing in the UNIX environment) but ELM
- seemed to have problems with it sometimes.
-
- Several other users here had various problems with Elm's filter and
- finally yanked the filter which cleared up the problems.
-
- I finally gave up on ELM's filter too. I was losing too many messages as
- well as getting corruption in my "main" mailbox. For example, if I had a
- message that was 30 lines long and did a resynch (perhaps while mail was
- incoming) that message would suddenly become 2 lines long.
-
- I've never seen the above happen when I don't use the filter.
-
- Unfortunately (again), I have not been able to correlate exactly what
- happens to give Syd anymore information. And I know how tough it can
- be to try and solve problems without enough data.
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