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>>> On 22 Apr 91 21:11:50 GMT,
>>> "Dan" == Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:

>>>>> On 21 Apr 91 22:03:38 GMT, kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) said:

Kyle> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:
 > Often my [Amdahl SYS V compiled 18.55] emacs gets stuck on subshell
 > stuff (some kind of SYS V problem, not a VM problem)... so I have to
 > hit ^G, send myself some mail, and then type "g" in VM to hopefully
 > get all the stuff and the nothing-mail I sent myself out of the
 > INBOX.CRASH ... that's when the loop happend ...
 > 
 > Anyway, It [by the way] would be neat if the "g" or some other key
 > would get mail out of the crash box, even if no new mail arrives...

Kyle> It should be doing this already.  (Everyone touch their crash box
Kyle> now and type `g' and see if VM notices it.)

Dan> Actually, I just found probably the most common manifestation of this
Dan> is the state where on disk a message has been appended to INBOX, but
Dan> hitting "g" gives "No new mail."

  Ouch! I'm not surprised.  In theory, nothing should touch your INBOX
  except VM itself.  That way you never encounter the problem of mail being
  appended to INBOX "on disk" without VM knowing about it.

    If you need to transfer mail from elsewhere, create a new incoming
  spool file (I use ~/Mail/SPOOL), add it to your vm-spool-files (or
  MAILPATH), and append to that file instead.

  
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