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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid,gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Out of memory problems.
Summary: dangerous to RMAIL...
Message-ID: <2343@rtech.rtech.com>
Date: 26 Jul 88 00:40:48 GMT
References: <18370@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Reply-To: daveb@llama.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA
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My emacs was running on a system that was short of swap space.  While
reading in new mail to an RMAIL buffer, I got an "out of memory" error.
Emacs had not read the mail into the buffer, and the mail was gone.

It would be a good idea to keep mail around until it has been read in OK
and the save of the RMAIL file completed.

-dB


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