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From: sanders@parc.xerox.com (Rex Sanders)
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Subject: Re: bug in berkeley "popper" program
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Date: 9 Mar 91 00:28:25 GMT
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Steve Dorner writes:
>YIKES!  He's right.
>
>Popper 1.7 will lose mail if your network connection goes down.

I've seen something like this before.  Look in your mail spool directory
(typically /usr/spool/mail or /var/spool/mail) for a file named something
like ".popUSERNAME" where USERNAME is your Unix login name.  Apparently,
under some conditions, the temp file popper uses doesn't get renamed
back to your old mailbox name.  All your old mail is still in this temp
file.

-- Rex