Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsz!davis From: davis@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Jim Davis) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Let's call it a wrap? Message-ID: <2312@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 14 Sep 88 02:27:58 GMT References: <3873@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Reply-To: davis@hplabs.hp.com (Jim Davis) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 59 Rob Bernardo rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM writes: rb> With the last bug fix of mine, just sent moments ago, according to rb> my records, the only outstanding bug that has been reported is rb> a highly intermittent one. It involves incorrect offsets into rb> the letters in a mail folder and seems to occur when new mail comes rb> in to a folder already being read by elm. This causes the viewing rb> of one letter to include some lines from adjacent letters. As I have observed that particular bug many times in several different versions of Elm over the past year I thought I would tell you a few things that make it far from sporadic. It happens every time now for me. This bug is dependent upon the "S)orting criteria" set. If "Reverse Mailbox Order" is selected then the problem will not occur. I have found that "Mailbox Order" on a mailbox of 20+ messages guarentees for me that the problem will occur. ------ jwd> From: Jim Davis jwd> Subject: Re: Elm2.0 bug jwd 06: Bad idea of message boundaries jwd> To: taylor@hplms2 (Dave Taylor) jwd> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 87 0:15:35 Pst jwd> X-Mailer: Elm [version 2.0 alpha] jwd> Dave, jwd> I have verified that this error is absolutely consistant jwd> on most any mailbox so long as Elm has the display order jwd> set to "Mailbox-Order". Mail received after Elm has started up jwd> will have its "From " line displayed also as the last line jwd> in the previous message. Changing the sort order does not jwd> fix the problem in already received messages, but the ones received jwd> while the new ordering is in effect (such as "Reverse Mailbox-Order") jwd> will not display the problem. Resetting the display ordering will jwd> again cause the problem to be exhibited on new messages. jwd> Very interesting . . . you should be able to see this on your own jwd> mailbox. jwd> -- Jim ------ jwd> From: Jim Davis jwd> Subject: Re: Elm2.0 bug jwd 06: Bad idea of message boundaries jwd> To: taylor@hplms2 (Dave Taylor) jwd> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 87 21:19:38 Pst jwd> Dave, jwd> The bug seems to be quite consistant. If I bring up elm jwd> on my system mailbox with messages in the box, if a new jwd> message arrives then viewing message will display the jwd> "from " line from message as the last line of message . jwd> If this is not consistant, then I should be able to provide you jwd> with an example. ------ -- -- Jim Davis Email: {any_of_the_biggies}!hplabs!davis Arpa/Domain: davis@hplabs.hp.com Ma Bell: (415)857-4036