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From: interran@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (John Interrante)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs rmail warning!
Message-ID: <2185@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 14:45:10 EST
Article-I.D.: Shasta.2185
Posted: Fri Oct 30 14:45:10 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 22:34:31 EST
References: <98@piring.cwi.nl> <954@cpocd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: interran@Shasta.UUCP (John Interrante)
Organization: Stanford University
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Summary: full filesystems can give you grief too

In article <98@piring.cwi.nl> Steven Pemberton writes:
>Just a warning - our machine crashed while I was in the middle of
>running rmail. ALL my mail, old and new got lost! 

I've also lost all of my new mail when my filesystem was full.  That
was GNU Emacs 18.47 on a Sun 3.  rmail couldn't move the new mail into
my directory, but it went ahead and deleted the new mail from my
system mailbox.

John Interrante / interran@shasta.stanford.edu / {decwrl,uunet}!shasta!interran