On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:49:40AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> >I don't suppose I have a hope in getting any sort of responce to this?
>
> Let me see ..
>
> >It is kinda important and I'd be more then happy to help track down the
> >problem but at the moment I've gotten SFA responce to it which may mean
> >that noone really cares if mutt corrupts mailboxes.
>
> Short answer - mutt doesn't corrupt mailboxes. You are running out of
> disk space, or have a flaky hdd, or your TMPDIR is in the wrong place.
Mutt does corrupt if it cannot recover from this situation without
corrupting the mailbox. It's not that the mailbox is saved, intact
but shorter but rather the individual msg headers are totally rooted
for most of the messages when mutt finds it cannot safe the mailbox.
I'm not suffering from an amputation of the end of a mailbox. I'm
suffering fromt he corruption of mailbox internals.ie the actual
individual msgs get turned into bits and pieces.
for example this is one message in the mailbox that is currupt. Not
that it consists of virtually missing headers and that it is two
messages concatenated into one. And even then the message bodies
are incomplete and the body of the first message does not belong
to the mailing list the From_ field says it does. That body belongs
with completly different messages.
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 18 22:20:35 20
Status: RO
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s On again! And it's not
too late to join in!!
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 18
Status: RO
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am unsure why I need an account with you. I guess a technical
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