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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Bug in Elm 2.1 PL1
Message-ID: <4236@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 88 04:05:34 GMT
References: <4935@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <4935@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
+There definitely seem to be a problem with mail coming in while elm is 
+running.  It recognizes that there are new messages, but some of them 
+are reported as having zero length.  Exiting elm without changing 
+anything and restarting it fixes things.  

I remember patching this bug. The bug would occur when would realize that
there was *more than one* new message just added to your mailfile. If I
remember correctly the first (or maybe it was all but the last) of the new
messages had their sizes miscalculated as 0 lines.

I can't remember if it was patched in elm 2.1 or in the elm 2.2 that's 
currently under development. I no longer have my elm 2.1 sources (I 
got rid of my elm 2.1 sources just this morning!) and patches and my 
scanning of the elm 2.2 patches doesn't show the patch to be there. 

If it was patched in elm 2.1 (which is my guess), have you applied
*all* the elm 2.1 patches? You said you were at PL 1, but I can't
remember how many official patches there were. Syd?

Maybe one of the other elm developers who has all the elm2.1 stuff
can look for the patch for this.