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- From: alan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Emergency.mbox problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.145152.28233@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:51:52 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- Having had a disastrous weekend on our system with disks filling up like
- fun, we noticed that ELM 2.3pl11 will try to save things in emergency.mbox;
- but if this file exists already it _overwrites_ rather than appends. Lots
- of our users tried using ELM several times, and lost a lot of mail...
-
- Not wanting to recreate the horrors that cause this it's easier to ask: is
- this behaviour fixed in 2.4?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Alan
-