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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Ouch!  Bug in Elm Looses mailbox
Keywords: elm bug loses mailbox
Message-ID: <439@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 19:16:34 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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Ouch!  I just lost my entire incoming mailbox.  I was in elm, deleting
certain messages, when I decided to quit.  I pressed 'q' and I got this
message over-and-over:

     ELM [seek] failed trying to read 779339 bytes into file

When it finally exited, my entire spool file was gone!  I am extremely
upset about this.  Elm should be smart enough to leave a file alone when
it gets an error.
-David-

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