Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ingr!horton
From: horton@ingr.com (Mac Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Zero length messages (was Re: Elm 2.1: disappearing messages)
Summary: elm reading problem
Message-ID: <3650@ingr.com>
Date: 24 Jan 89 23:30:17 GMT
References: <3387@ingr.com.> <770001@hpmwrlp.HP.COM>
Reply-To: horton@ingr.UUCP (Mac Horton)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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	A couple of weeks ago I posted a query about messages
disappearing with Elm 2.1.  Since then I have discovered there are at
least two different phenomena: mail getting sent which has a header but
no body, and mail arriving intact but being reported as zero length by
Elm.  For the moment I am ignoring the first one, as I have found it
produced at least once by user error: using ^X^R in Emacs to read in a
file which causes the output file name to be changed, so that Elm's temp
file is never updated.

	The second manifestation is a real problem.  A zero-length
message appears on the menu.  Attempting to read it gets only a "Message
from..." line.  However, if you dump the mail file the message is there. 
If you "quit" out of Elm and get back in, the message has either
disappeared completely or shows up intact. 

	I suspect it only happens when mail arrives while you're already
in Elm, but have not verified this yet.  Anyone else seen it?  Elm 2.1
is getting a very bad name around here, and I don't have time to delve
deeply enough into this to track it down.

-- 
Mac Horton 		|  She's making me a pair of shoes
mac!horton@INGR.COM	|  	so I can run away.
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