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Article #860inbox corruption (malformed MIME message?)
From: Johnny
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:55
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:55
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I had a case of INBOX corruption today. I have not yet been able
to reproduce it consistently with a small example, but here's what
happened, in case a bell rings somewhere:
1) Starting point is an INBOX with approx. 60 messages, many with attachments
2) I use mouse-3 to save an MS Word attachment from one of the messages to a file
(NOTE: the attachment had already been saved, but the button appears
as usual, and I did not notice this)
3) I get the following error message:
MIME part missing header/body separator line
4) Subsequent scrolling in the folder (n, p) causes strange display
in Presentation buffer: visible X-vm headers, etc
5) Since something is hosed, I decide to press q in order to start over
6) Since I had already edited INBOX, vm saves the buffer to disk
7) I quit emacs, restart, restart VM
8) INBOX is now only 30 messages!
9) File sizes confirm that VM saved an INBOX which was much shorter
than it should be
I was saved by the backup file, so I lost nothing important, but...
J
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