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From: peterm@hpdtl.HP.COM (Peter Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 (PL16) trashing mail
Message-ID: <7230006@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 90 21:09:56 GMT
References: <411@ctt.ctt.bellcore.com>
Organization: HP Design Tech. Lab., Palo Alto, CA
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Good luck!  Several people here used to have that problem, too, and we're
running HP-UX on HP platforms.  It seemed to give problems when the mailbox
was being rewritten at the same time as mail was incoming.  People with
large mailboxes were particularly prone.  I tried piping all mail through
the "filter" program in Elm which seemed to help.

I don't know if Elm 2.3 has fixed the problem or not.  If I hear my disk
chattering, it's usually due to mail coming in and I avoid doing a "q" from
Elm.  I haven't had the guts yet to deliberately try to cause a clash.

	Peter