Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!laidbak!obdient!gagme!greg
From: greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.3 bug (?) loading in freshly arrived mail.
Message-ID: <411@gagme.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 Jun 90 17:16:10 GMT
References: <399@gagme.chi.il.us> <1990Jun2.031938.26010@DSI.COM>
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Niles, Illinois, USA, Earth
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In article <1990Jun2.031938.26010@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>
>: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.


Yes, it is an everyday occurance.  This doesn't happen all the time.
It's only happened about 3 or 4 times to me since I installed 2.3
here about a week ago.  I don't know if it's happened to any of
my users; none of them have complained.

I really don't think it's a problem of running out of space.  But,,
how much space can it need?  I was reading may 20K of mail, but I
had a couple meg available in temp, and about 15 meg in /usr/tmp.

-greg

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