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From: jromine@yoyodyne.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: "Problems with edit - draft removed"
Message-ID: <28663D6A.23943@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 18:43:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.123801.5092@walter.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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mo@bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:
>Repl and Forw have started doing ["Problems with edit - draft
>removed"] intermittently, and boy, nothing undermines the faith in a
>user community faster than mail programs that don't work.  So the
>message is a bit more dour than is needed, because the draft is still
>usually there, but WHAT'S HAPPENING????

If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with
non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit).
Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place:

	#! /bin/sh
	/usr/ucb/vi $*
	exit 0

Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should
fix it.
--
John Romine