Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!nate From: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid,gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: Out of memory problems. Message-ID: <2652@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 26 Jul 88 13:45:31 GMT References: <18370@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2343@rtech.rtech.com> Reply-To: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 20 In article <2343@rtech.rtech.com> daveb@llama.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: >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. This is indeed what happens. Your mail gets copied into ~/.newmail from the spool area, then it gets copies into the RMAIL buffer, and *then* ~/.newmail is deleted. So, if you get an error while the RMAIL buffer is copying the mail from the spool area, ~/.newmail will contain what was in /usr/spool/mail/. --woodstock -- "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?" ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb|pur-ee|qantel|amd}!intelca!mipos3!nate : nate@mipos3.intel.com ATT : (408) 765-4309