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From: cubfan@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Rick Casares)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Folder corrupted error
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.194126.17428@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Apr 91 19:41:26 GMT
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Reply-To: cubfan@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Rick Casares)
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Can anyone here verify if the explanantion below is true.

>>
>>what does it mean when I try to use elm and it gives me the following message:
>>
>>Reading in /usr/spool/mail/jmaster, message: 0
>>Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!
>>

Second user repsonds by saying:

>    This often happens to me.  It means that you have received a mail message
>with some kind of header that Elm can't figure out.  It seems to have trouble
>with headers of messages that come back because they can't be delivered.  I
>haven't bothered to figure out whether the problem is with Elm, or with the
>machine that bounces the mail back.  Anyway, use the regular Unix mail program
>to read your mail, and get rid of the message that is confusing Elm.