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From: LLACROIX@carleton.edu.UUCP
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Subject: MAIL messages lost between NEWMAIL and WASTEBASKET
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Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 00:55:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 00:55:00 1986
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Ever since VMS 4.0 I have on occasion seen this bug, which happened
again tonight on a VMS 4.4 system.  I have not tried very hard to
reproduce it to send in an SPR, but will do so soon.  I would appreciate
hearing from anyone who has a good workaround.

I make a digest of Info-VAX articles for local redistribution.  While making
the archive I move a message to a folder named "info-vax", and go on to the
next message by pressing the"return" key.  Usually that is another message from
Info-VAX, so I hit the up-arrow key (recalling the "move info-vax" command)
followed by two carriage-returns in quick succession.  All goes well until
I decide to delete a message w/o adding it to the digest.  After reading
the next message, in my carelessness I may just hit the Up-arrow/cr/cr
sequence, thinking I'll be moving it to info-vax, but instead I end
up deleting it.

Here's the rub.  I would like to recover the deleted message.  Unfortunately,
if I SELECT WASTEBASKET, the message isn't there!  As a matter of fact,
it is nowhere in any of my folders.

Ok, I know I should be a little more careful.  I should also probably
define a key to be "move info-vax"/terminate, but that doesn't help
for the other times when I overzealously delete a message.  It happens
if I have AUTO-PURGE on or off, although next time I will try setting
AUTOPURGE OFF, exiting MAIL and reentering again before I look in the
WASTEBASKET.  Any other hints?  Feel free to respond directly and I'll
summarize if I get any interesting responses.

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