Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!parc.xerox.com!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Some REAL confessions about AMS speed Message-ID: <0abH1IUB0KGWALFBpP@holmes.parc.xerox.com> Date: 13 Jul 90 02:22:12 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 I hate to say it, but between the three mailers I've really had experience with (VAX/VMS mail, GNU Emacs RMAIL, and Andrew messages), `messages' is the only one that has lost mail on me. I'm not sure the code that takes the UNIX mail spool file and puts it into ~/Mailbox is all that careful, as in one case I lost about 12 messages because I chose "Check New Messages" while my home disk was (inadvertently) full. They just disappeared somewhere, and I immediately added a new check to my trouble light in `console'. In another instance, I missed many messages because they had been appended to the preceeding message. The code that splits the mail spool file was either too picky, or not enough, I don't remember, and all the odd names in the Xerox mail messages gave it grief. Both problems were with version 6.xx of messages, I haven't had problems with 7.14 yet. Bill