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Re: Bug in VM 5.32 - incorporating new mail

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From: Ciamac Moallemi
Date: Wed, 27 May 1992 21:43
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>>>>> On Wed, 27 May 92 13:28:14, kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) said:

kyle> Ciamac Moallemi writes:
 > I have found a potential bug in VM 5.32: when I incorporate new mail,
 > I am asked if I really wish to kill my vm-crash-box.  This is not a
 > big deal, but it gets quite annoying after a while.  Note that I have
 > vm-visit-when-saving set to t and vm-crash-box is in my
 > auto-mode-alist (associated with vm-mode, of course).

kyle> Emacs won't ask about the killng a buffer unless it has been
kyle> modified.  VM should not be doing anything that would modify the
kyle> crash box buffer.  So the question is: how is the crash box
kyle> buffer being modified?

Isn't VM modifying the crash box buffer when it incorporates new mail?
I was under the impression that new mail is first deposited into the
crash box buffer, and then moved to the inbox.
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Subject: Re: Bug in VM 5.32 - incorporating new mail
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