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From: odt@ctt.bellcore.com (Dan Transue)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm 2.2 (PL16) trashing mail
Message-ID: <411@ctt.ctt.bellcore.com>
Date: 4 Jul 90 16:09:22 GMT
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Reply-To: odt@ctt.bellcore.com (Dan Transue)
Organization: Computer Technology Transfer, Bellcore
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We just (finally) upgraded th Elm 2.2 PL16 from a very old
Elm 1.7beta.  The reason for the upgrade was the the old copy
kept trashing mail boxes at the rate of about one every week
and a half.  Sinc 7/1 when we upgraded to the new copy, we have
had about a dozen requests (plus some interesting comments) for
user's mailboxes to be restored.

Can anyone tell me what we are doing wrong?  I can't get rid of
the program as the users who use it like it a lot.  Here's the
details:

         Running on a Pyramid 9820 running OSx 5.0c.  Elm
         and it's utilities were compiled under this release
         under the ucb universe.  All mail access is done
         locally although this file system is exported to
         over a hundred Sun Workstations where ELM is not
         used but others such as mush, mh, mailtool, and
         plain mail are.

If I've left anything out, please let me know and I'll 'fess up
or go find out.

Thanks in advance.

-dan
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