Re: not all mail in a mail file is shown?

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From: AlexJB
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:31

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On Mar 27, 4:35 am, tyler <tyler.sm...@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> So where did the ^M come from? I don't notice it in other mailboxes
> created from vm.

that's a line-ending character used by DOS. UNIX doesn't use it, and
most unix apps ignore it.  those could possibly have been inserted by
a text editor running in windows, but it's odd that they would only
appear in some of the messages.

it's not surprising that VM would have effectively deleted the ~50
messages. basically, when VM read the file, it encountered something
that made it think that it had reached the end of the file (this would
be where the possible bug is). but once that happened, since VM didn't
realize that something had gone wrong, if you saved the folder, VM
would have overwritten what was on disc with it's current concept of
the complete folder.

so, aside from the epic (silent and therefore deadly) fail on opening
the folder in the first place, it's behaving as expected.

i think it could be worth documenting a little more precisely if this
is a reproducable error. perhaps someone will understand what caused
it.

..AlexJB

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Subject: Re: not all mail in a mail file is shown?
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