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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Subject: Re: ELM problem after applying PL4-8 to 2.4: Can't get into mailbox!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.181548.6934@DSI.COM>
- Keywords: PL8 error
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
- References: <BxKMI8.IDC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:15:48 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- lbroda@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Larry Broda) writes:
- >After applying patch levels 4 through 8 to ELM 2.4 today on our Sun
- >4.470, SunOS 4.1.2, some users began getting this error on trying to
- >enter their primary Elm mailbox:
-
-
- >Reading in /var/spool/mail/<username-deleted>, message: 328
- >newmbox - length of mbox. != spool mailbox length!!
-
- >Write to temp file failed, exiting leaving mailbox intact!
-
- >This does not happen with other folders, and not to everybody.
-
- I have received a patch to correct this, its due to the code I added in
- 7/8 to handle incorrect Content-Length headers. I only tested it on
- 'folders' and not the spool file, so I missed the case of backing up
- the temp copy for the mail spool. It will only occur on mail spools
- that have an incorrect content length header in them. Patch 9 will fix
- this, and I am sure introduce a new set of bugs.
- --
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL08
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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