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From: syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.3 bug (?) loading in freshly arrived mail.
Message-ID: <1990Jun2.031938.26010@DSI.COM>
Date: 2 Jun 90 03:19:38 GMT
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greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
:I've had this happen to me several times since I installed 2.3,
:but it's just now starting to get annoying.  This is on a 3B2
:running System V 3.2.

:It seem to happen when I'm already in elm, and new mail arrives.

:This is what the screen looks like at the bottom:

:--

:Command:
:Reading message: 2
:newmbox - length of mbox. != spool mailbox length!!

:Write to temp file failed, exiting leaving mailbox intact!

:$
In general, receiving mail while in Elm is an every day occurrence
for me, so there is no general bug there.  However, there is a check
for file write errors that checks the spool length and the temp file
length after a copy to see if they match.  If you ran out of temp
space they wouldn't...  Are you running out of temp space,
in which case, this is a legimite error message.

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