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- From: gordon@madmax.uwaterloo.ca (Gordon R. Strachan)
- Subject: Re: HP's elm loses messages
- Message-ID: <BuBDBM.IrC@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: HP elm bug
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Sep9.132611.164480@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:54:57 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Sep9.132611.164480@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> vaughan@ewd.dsto.gov.au (Vaughan Clarkson) writes:
- >We are encountering an insidious bug in HP's implementation of elm (the default
- >mailer on our system). It seems that if, after editing a message for delivery,
- >you hit the 's' button (for send), and then quit immediately, the mail never
- >gets sent even though the messages 'Sending mail...' and then 'Mail sent!'
- >appear to comfort the user.
- >
- >This is an extremely annoying bug, and though I have warned people on our net
- >about quitting too quickly from elm, mail still gets lost this way.
- >
- >We're running a cluster with a HP 730 as the server, and HP 720s as clients.
- >The OS is HP-UX 8.07, although we noticed the bug when we had 8.05 as well.
- >
- >Has anyone else noticed this bug? Or, better, know how to fix it?
-
- I have noticed this problem as well. It only occures when you are using
- elm from the VUE workspace manager. What appears to happen is when you
- execute the send command, elm launches a background process (most likely
- sendmail) to do the delivery. You then do a quite which closes the window
- and seems to have the side effect of killing elm's children before they have
- delivered the mail.
-
- Anyway, that is my guess at it.
-
- Gordon
-
-