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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Zero length messages (was Re: Elm 2.1: disappearing messages)
Message-ID: <4586@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 89 17:30:08 GMT
References: <3387@ingr.com.> <770001@hpmwrlp.HP.COM> <3650@ingr.com>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <3650@ingr.com> horton@ingr.UUCP (Mac Horton) writes:
+	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. 

If something like this mysterious happens, DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT leave
ELM by the 'q' command. Leave instead by the 'x' command which will not
update your mail file.  You do not want ELM to update your mail file
if it is confused about what is in it.

+	I suspect it only happens when mail arrives while you're already
+in Elm, but have not verified this yet.  Anyone else seen it?

If I remember correctly, there were some problems  about this that were
fixed early on in the version of ELM currently under development, ELM 2.2.
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library
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