Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!ftw
From: ftw@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: /usr/ucb/Mail blues
Message-ID: <106600023@datacube>
Date: 21 Dec 87 20:14:00 GMT
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Nf-ID: #N:datacube:106600023:000:1156
Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw    Dec 21 15:14:00 1987


Here's a strange one that a real Mail-guru might know about:

The program: /usr/ucb/Mail
The OS: Pyramid dualPort OSx (Berkeley 4.3 universe)
The Symptoms:

When I read my mail, sometimes more mail will come in.  If I choose to
Reply to a letter I am reading, and more mail has come in, mail will
respond with:

	~ftw/mailbox/out1987: Ambiguous

and will not append the outgoing letter to that logfile.  This does not
interfere with the mail getting to the sender, however.  The other thing
that happens is that Mail will create a file named "^A" (sans quotes)
in the current working directory, and stick a copy of the outgoing mail
into that.  If "^A" exists, the outgoing letter is appended.

This does not appear to happen if I do not receive any NEW mail while
Replying to a letter.  Only when new mail comes in, and I'm already
reading mail (you all followed that sentence, right ;-)


				Farrell T. Woods 

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