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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: Help with elm2.3 patch 11
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.213330.18226@cs.dal.ca>
Summary: happens all the time!
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
References: <1991Apr18.165554.19824@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 21:33:30 GMT

In article <1991Apr18.165554.19824@athena.cs.uga.edu> perera@athena.cs.uga.edu (Niranjan) writes:
>Greetings,
>
>I wonder if any of you souls could give me some pointers with the following
>elm problem...
>
>I recently got elm2.3 patch 11 and installed it in my directory and was using
>it for about a week. 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!!

This has been happening to me since I first got ELM.  It usually seems
to be due to a message that includes a header word at the start of the
line.  Usually I just resort to standard mail to read the folder, and
after the offending line has been deleted everything is fine again.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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