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From: Per Hammarlund
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 16:34

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Hi,

This might be a well known bug, but I have been loosing mail in
vm-5.32.  I am running vm in mule-0.9.7.1.02.

What happens is that I get mail, or I know there is mail in my spool,
I hit "g", or invoke vm.  Vm then happily says that it is "getting
mail...".  But then it reports zero new messages.  The temporary mail
file is removed, and spool is of course empty.

If one looks at the end of the INBOX file, it is riddled with NULL
(
these NULL bytes, I have never found a case with more than one, but
perhaps that could be true also, so vm cannot find the mail it has
inserted in INBOX.

Is there a fix for this bug?

per

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