[1722] in Athena Bugs
bug in mh when over quota
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (noah@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 30 16:35:24 1989
From: <noah@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 16:35:03 EST
I know that some of these problems have already been explored. Not sure
if this particular aspect is well known:
Bug: the mh "show" command refuses to display mail unless the corresponding
.mh_sequences file is in the folder. Unfortunately, this may not be true
if "inc" blows up due to disk full.
This means that a user of mh cannot read their mail, and therefore cannot
decide what to delete to get back under quota. You can't even make the
required .mh_sequences easily, as you are over quota!
Circumvention (ugly): find a file you don't need, for example, mail number 26.
Then:
cat >26
cur: 1
^D
mv 26 .mh_sequences
This creates the required file without causing allocation of blocks.
Correct fix: neither scan, show, rmm or refile should require an .mh_sequences
as long as explicit message numbers are supplied on the command.
Noah
