[12876] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7G: RMAIL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rei@MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 11 17:09:44 1994
From: rei@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 17:09:31 EST
System name: marinara
Type and version: KN02ca 7.7G (1 update(s) to same version)
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What were you trying to do?
Get email.
What's wrong:
"It's gone!"
My RMAIL file was huge. I admit it; it was at about 1008,
and it was so big that I was hitting quota. But I pruned it slightly,
and then tried to get my new mail.
Well, as I tried to g(et) the email, RMAIL said, "Saving file
....(etc)". I was talking to someone, and when I looked back, it
turned out my connection to marinara had been closed. So I logged
back in and did "emacs -e rmail" like I always do. And then it popped
up with the new email ... and said it was 1/1 (ie, the first and ONLY
message in my previously 1008-message RMAIL file).
I looked in my Private dir and found that I had
-rw------- 1 rei 1152 Nov 11 16:46 RMAIL
-rw------- 1 rei 0 Nov 11 16:46 RMAIL~
(No # files, no useful ~ files)
dkk said that marinara had just crashed, but that's
hardly a reason for the RMAIL to just vanish....
(I'm restoring from OldStuff, but I did lose a couple
pieces of mail I was intending to archive).
What should have happened:
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