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From: ashley@cheops.EECS.UNSW.OZ (Ashley M. Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Aaarrrggghh! Trouble with mail ? ELM ?
Message-ID: <792@cheops.EECS.UNSW.OZ>
Date: 15 Jul 88 01:16:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Uni of NSW, Aust.
Lines: 51


Howdy !

I wonder if someone could please help me. I  am  having  quite  a
considerable  amount of trouble with mail in general (and perhaps
elm in particular, but no accusations as yet).

I mainly use elm to mail, and reply to mail. My problem  is  that
what I see in the editing of the send file is not what gets sent,
usually. For example, I wish to reply to someone mail to me, so I
"r"eply  and include the test of the mail. I then proceed to edit
the file responding to each point etc etc. After quite a  bit  of
work  I  then  exit  from the editor and choose to send the mail.
Everything seems fine, BUT on a large number of  cases  the  mail
which  gets delivered is just the original file with the included
text. On  some  occasions,  I  think,  some  of  my  changes  get
included.  It's  a  bit  weird  because  I actually save the file
before sending it ie write it somewhere, but still it  don't  get
through.  From  seeing  some  of  the  mail  that gets through it
appears that the mail may be getting sent prematurely,ie before I
finish.  A  number  of things I can think of may be causing this,
for example, I often ^Z out of the mailer (the editor) to go  and
get  other  information  for  the  letter,  and  sometimes I exit
straight after sending the mail (having read of the problems with
elm killing the mailer).

It is  really  a  pain.  Any  help  or  comments  would  be  most
appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,

Ashley

P.S. I am using elm version 1.2 (but don't know what, if any, patches
have been done to it).

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