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From: protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: filter rule won't work
Message-ID: <4672@cocoa7.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 16:58:21 GMT
References: <492@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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From article <492@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>, by aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug):
> 
> The rest of my
> mail now seems to get appended into a single message.  That is,
> say I have received 5 new messages, when invoking elm to read
> them, they all show up in one message.  Any ideas?  I looked
> at the mail spool file, and the headers seem to be the same
> as they were before.  This only starts happening when I turn
> on the filter process (I guess via the .forward file). 

This has also happened to me.  The problem is with filter.  If you
are getting multiple messages simultaneously and have multiple
sendmail/filter processes running at the same time, it sometimes
causes your mail spool file to get corrupted.

I am using Smail3.1.19 and Elm2.3.11.  I had to add 2 lines of code
to the filter source, and all my problems went away.  

I once tried to get this "feature" fixed, but it requires more than
2 lines of code to work in a networked environment.  On the other
hand, if you are using a stand-alone machine and would like more
info I would be glad to assist.

-- 
Mike Protofanousis 
msp@pronet.chi.il.us
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