Re: rmail bug with labels (full disk causes lossage)

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From: David A Duff
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 17:18

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Another bug with rmail: 

Somehow, in version 18.50.6 running on a sun 3/75 a full disk seems to cause
rmail to lose incoming mail.  

I looked at the code for the get-new-mail function and it looks like it does
the "right thing" in terms of dealing with full disks, in that it tries to
catch errors during the saving of the emacs buffer.  My guess is that this
problem may be specific to nfs, in that it seems possible that the save
function can complete even though the actual writing of the file did not
happen (e.g. in the case where the disk is full).

Are others aware of this problem?  I would guess that it must affect other
things besides rmail, too.  Anyone have any suggestions for fixing it?

Thanks,
--
Dave Duff                                     GE Research and Development Center
duff@eraserhead.steinmetz.ge.com                           Schenectady, New York
uunet!steinmetz!eraserhead!duff                                     518-387-5649

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