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From: RMANGALD@CLARKU.BITNET
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Subject: A bug in VMS/MAIL?
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 17:21:00 EDT
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        I wonder if this is a bug in VMS/MAIL:  I was in the middle of
COMPRESSing my mail file when I received new mail.  After the COMPRESS
finished, I tried doing a READ/NEW to read the message, but the message
had disappeared; I figured the message may be in the MAIL.OLD file and
did a SET FILE MAIL.OLD, followed by SELECT NEWMAIL and READ.  Sure
enough, the message was there.

        In my opinion, the new message should have been copied to the
new MAIL.MAI file rather than being stashed away in MAIL.OLD -- am I
wrong?  Has anybody else experienced this problem?

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Rahul Mangaldas (rmangaldas@clarku.bitnet)
Box 1311, Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610-1477