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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Help with elm2.3 patch 11
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.195354.28171@DSI.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 91 19:53:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: DSI.1991Apr18.195354.28171
References: <1991Apr18.165554.19824@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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perera@athena.cs.uga.edu (Niranjan) writes:
>Today when I tried to use elm I got the following mesg..

>Reading in /var/spool/mail/perera, message: 0
>folder is corrupt!! I cant read it!!
What it is saying is that the folder did not start with a UNIX
mail message.

If elm is not compiled for MMDF support, the mailbox must start
with "From path date-stamp" where there are 7 or 8 eight fields total.
(the 7 is without timezone, the 8 is with timezone)

If elm is compiled for MMDF support the mailbox must start
with ^A^A^A^A (or the configured MMDF seperator) and then the "From "
line.

If this is not true, Elm reports the folder is corrupt.

Look why the folder does not contain that format of data.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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