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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Where does the mail go???
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Date: 25 Jul 90 17:19:15 GMT
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In article <6791@helios.TAMU.EDU> jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) 
writes:
> Just a simple question...  Where the h### does my NeXT mail go
> when it just disappears from my Active.mbox for absolutely no
> reason whatsoever???  

I was just investigating this on one of the machines we have here.  It 
appears that under some conditions the table_of_contents file in your 
Active.mbox directory can become corrupted.  To retrieve the missing mail, 
I quit Mail, deleted the table of contents and restarted mail.  Mail 
automatically rebuilt the table of contents and the missing mail magically 
reappeared.

So there seems to be a bug in mail that under some conditions (anyone know 
what they are???) the table_of_contents can get corrupted.


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