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Re: bug -- lost mail

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From: Barry A. Warsaw
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 19:19
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>>>>> "DBR" == David B Rosen <rosen@unr.edu> writes:

    DBR> I am using VM 5.32 (beta), which I find to be an excellent
    DBR> piece of software.  Today however, I used the g key to get
    DBR> new mail, then changed my mind and pressed C-g to try to
    DBR> cancel it.  As a result, it appears that my incoming mail was
    DBR> lost -- not even saved in a crash box.  Has this problem been
    DBR> reported before?

I've done this before.  Its a little scary, because the mail isn't in
your inbox or crashbox, and if you use xbiff (or somesuch) your icon
will indicate no mail, but the mail was always still sitting in my
spool file.  I think I once had to kill vm and restart it (can't swear
by that), but in any case, just hitting another "g" sucked the mail
into vm.  I don't *think* I lost anything :-)

-Barry
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From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
Subject: Re: bug -- lost mail
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Date: 18 Jun 1993 19:19:03 GMT