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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: elm 2.2 PL9 lost messages
Keywords: elm 2.2 PL9 lost messages
Message-ID: <845@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 12:13:33 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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While I was dialing into our Sun from home, a member of my family picked
up the telephone line.  Some spurious characters were generated, which
may have included things like ^C or ^Z, etc.  Anyway, it happened while
I was exiting elm and doing the unnecessary save of messages.  Many of
my recent incoming messages were lost as a result.

I know this is mostly my fault, but it seems like there are a number of
things that could be done to improve the situation.  For instance, I
liked the 2.1 PL1 behavior where it did not re-save your mailbox every
time you read new mail.  Second, it could trap ^C and do some kind of
error recovery that would not result in lost data.

It seems that due to this problem, and due to full partitions while
saving, I have lost many messages from elm.  I would like to encourage
improvements in this area, and discussion from others who have had
similar problems.  -David-
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