SUMMARY:About file emergency.mbox

From: Antonia Gomez <antonia_at_fib.upc.es>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 11:54:53 +0100

Hello!
My original question was:
> We have some users that they have in their home directory a file
> named "emergency.mbox", all them work with the "elm".
> Some users have lost some mails of their folder "received".
> Do anybody know any thing about this?

The answers:

Thanks at Nikos George:
"That's an elm specific: Whenever elm has trouble updating or closing
the mailbox, it saves everything in $HOME/emergency.mbox and then quits!
Since some of your users have lost messages from their mailbox,
something nasty happened. All the lost ones should be in tat file."


Thanks at Jay Sekora :
"It often happens when /var/spool/mail fills up, or there are other
problems that prevent elm from re-writing a modified mail spool file to
the user's mail spool file.

Note that an existing emergency.mbox is _not_ saved when a new one is
written, so if somebody tries to read their mail twice with elm, and
this happens, they will lose the mail that was saved in the original
emergency.mbox.

People can read this file (instead of their incoming mail) by starting
elm as "elm -f ~/emergency.mbox", or by choosing "c" (for Change
folder) from within elm and typing "emergency.mbox"."

Bye!
Tonyi.
Received on Tue Jan 07 1997 - 12:11:06 NZDT

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