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From: tom@ismdqa.intel.com (Tom Soukup ~)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: ELM Problem???
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Date: 12 Oct 89 21:23:48 GMT
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Hi all,

I have a pretty serious elm related problem that has caused several users
to lose mail.  What I believe is happening is that when elm tries to create
the temporary mailbox in /tmp and the filesystem overflows, elm continues
on assuming that the file was created.  The user sees a message that the
filesystem is full and their mail is gone.  Then when the user exits elm,
whatever is in the /tmp/mbox.username file (usually nothing) gets copied back to
/usr/spool/mail/username and everything is gone forever.

My question is this.  Is this possibly what's happening or is there
something else that I need to look for?  If this is an elm bug, is it known
and getting fixed?  For know I'll increase the disk space available for
/tmp, but I have limits on how much I can use and I have users who just
can't (won't) keep their mail files down to a reasonable size.

Any info/ideas would be greatly apreciated.

Thanks,
Tom Soukup

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DISCLAMER:  Intel doesn't agree with much of anything that I say.
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