[7376] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.2R: sendbug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Mar 31 00:09:26 1991
From: yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 91 00:09:15 EST
System name: m14s-010-2
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.2R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Report two bugs that I observed recently.
What's wrong:
Sendbug placed copies of the drafts I created in my Mail directory.
(/mit/yandros/Private/Mail) One, it tried to delete. Since I had two
messages, and the first one didn't get deleted, the first got pushed
into a backup file (draft~). The second file DELETED itself after
pushing the first into a ~ file where it would stay until I checked
it.
What should have happened:
Sendbug should have followed my rmmproc set in .mh_profile, i.e. /bin/rm
BOTH times. The first apparently missed altogether, and the second was
DELETE. This is annoying to me, since I had set rmm for a purpose.
(Long tirade here. skip to the end if you wish)
A few weeks ago, I had occasion to help a friend try and get under quota.
She has 1300K+ on her account. I cd'd to her mail dir, and without
listing it typed 'purge' The list of supposedly deleted mail files was
huge. IOt took the 3100 over 5 minutes to get a prompt back (realtime,
and a light one at that. I *know* at least five minutes passed on my clock)
when the purge had finished, she had just at 300K left in her account.
The accumulated mail messages that supposedly would be removed eventually
totaled over 1000K. I talked to a mutual friend later that night. He told
me that the same thing had been done about 3 months earlier, with similar
results. I showed her how to change the rmmproc, and everythings happy
now, except that she had removed thigns she wished to keep because she
thought she was over quota, when in fact, she was retaining supposedly
'deleted' mail. I have many other friends with similar experiences.
Now, finding out that sendbug doesn't even do that much... Well, I imagine
that you're tired of reading to this now. Thanks for your trouble, those
of you who did read it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
possible manpage; I had never used sendbug before.
***Note: If, when you read this, you remember hearing an loud AAARRGGHHH!
last Saturday, then this file didn't delete itself either. :^)
