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From: tombre@weissenburger.crin.fr (Karl Tombre)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Problems with newmail
Message-ID: <278@loria.crin.fr>
Date: 18 Sep 89 07:50:11 GMT
Sender: news@loria.crin.fr
Reply-To: tombre@loria.crin.fr (Karl Tombre)
Organization: CRIN - INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France
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I have problems with newmail on a SUN 3/260 and SunOS 4.0 : I start
newmail in my .login file, with newmail looking actually not at my sun
mailbox but at a remote mailbox (that of the main mail server). I also
start up a shelltool with elm running on that mailbox. But when I exit
suntools, newmail apparently doesn't kill itself; this Monday I found
on the console screen all the newmail messages of the weekend, from
the newmail process I had running on Friday.

I have also found another problem with newmail when running on the
main mail server (a Convex) : I am advised that new mail has arrived.
If I enter elm and read this new mail, then quit elm without deleting
the new mail which has now been read, newmail tells me a second time
that there is new mail. What is strange is that the first time, I get
the newmail messages WITH the name of the sender, but the second time
WITHOUT the name of the sender...

I also get sometimes, although not often, strange newmail messages
like : New mail from ^JJ or something like that. It doesn't relate to
any new incoming mail...

I have the elm 2.2 package at patchlevel 10.

Has anybody experienced similar problems and/or has any solutions or
advice to give.

Thanks in advance,

Karl Tombre - INRIA Lorraine / CRIN
EMAIL : tombre@loria.crin.fr - POST : BP 239, 54506 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX, France