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- From: linda@uni-paderborn.de (Linda Floren)
- Subject: Re: Filter problems
- In-Reply-To: minor@rtsg.mot.com's message of Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:15:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <LINDA.92Sep1134011@matisse.uni-paderborn.de>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:40:11 GMT
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- >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Minor <minor@rtsg.mot.com> writes:
- Kevin> Nntp-Posting-Host: coal8
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- Kevin> gt7237a@prism.gatech.EDU (Matt Le Blanc) writes:
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- Kevin> |>Hmmm. Anyone know why my filter works only sometimes. Seems that it
- Kevin> |>only works when I first log off. Then, after a while after I logged
- Kevin> |>off, the filter stops working and when I log back in, none of the new
- Kevin> |>mail is filtered. Thanks for any help.
-
- Kevin> I've observed tons of filter problems. Lost mail. Spool corruption, etc.
-
- Kevin> Unfortunately, I can't help with your problem.
-
- Kevin> I talked to Syd a while back about my problems and he seemed to indicate
- Kevin> problems with how NFS operates.
-
- This refers to problems of elm itself, not to filter.
-
- Kevin> But it never explained how other mail
- Kevin> agents could handle what ELM could not under in the same environment.
- Kevin> I mean read and writing to the spool file is something that is normally
- Kevin> easily handled by mail agents (runing in the UNIX environment) but ELM
- Kevin> seemed to have problems with it sometimes.
-
- Elm has problems, because it works on /var/spool/mail/user, while most
- of the other mail-agents pipe the mail into a file in Your
- home-directory. Thus if something goes wrong, new arived mail can get lost.
-
- We easily got rid of our elm-problems, when we stopped the
- elm-feature, that makes elm look for new mail EVERY SECOND !!! This of
- course causes lots of NFS-traffic.
-
- Now elm only looks for new mail when an arrow-key (up, down) is
- pressed, an it works absolutely fine ever since!
-
- Kevin> Several other users here had various problems with Elm's filter and
- Kevin> finally yanked the filter which cleared up the problems.
-
- Kevin> I finally gave up on ELM's filter too. I was losing too many messages as
- Kevin> well as getting corruption in my "main" mailbox. For example, if I had a
- Kevin> message that was 30 lines long and did a resynch (perhaps while mail was
- Kevin> incoming) that message would suddenly become 2 lines long.
-
- This is also the above NFS-problem and has nothing to do with filter.
-
- Kevin> I've never seen the above happen when I don't use the filter.
-
- Kevin> Unfortunately (again), I have not been able to correlate exactly what
- Kevin> happens to give Syd anymore information. And I know how tough it can
- Kevin> be to try and solve problems without enough data.
- Kevin> --
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- Kevin> | Mail: minor@rtsg.mot.com |
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- Never give up trying!
-
- Linda Floren
- (linda@uni-paderborn.de)
- (postmaster@uni-paderborn.de)
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