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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU
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Subject: New MAIL bug?
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Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 16:19:16 EST
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It seems that when you've got a LOT of messages (I had ~350) in a folder
and you delete a lot of them (I now have 14), that MAIL gets confused
as to which ones you've deleted.  I had deleted all but about 40 of the
original messages, and exited from mail.  Lo and behold, when I ran mail
again, the 40 messages I had left included a number of messages that I
had deleted (and therefore did NOT include a number of messages that I
hadn't deleted).  Has anybody else out there run into this problem?
(Note:  on a couple of occasions, I read messages that had gone into
WASTEBASKET when I found later messages referring to them, then selected
the MAIL folder again).  I've had this happen once before, I think, but
since on the first occasion it was only one message that seemed to have
been misplaced, I chalked it up to a mistake on my part; now I'm not
so certain.