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From: yountm@gtephx.UUCP (Marvin Yount)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Old mail overwriting new mail
Keywords: Bug in Elm 2.2 PL0?
Message-ID: <450cf429.1070b@gtephx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 21:44:37 GMT
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Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
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I'm currently running Elm 2.2 PL0 in a sys5 mail environment on an Apollo
SR9.7 system.  Recently I've had a problem with newly received mail being
overwritten by an older piece of mail.  Yes, I know that sounds backwards,
but when I try to read the new mail, I'm instead shown the oldest mail in my
mailbox.  I've been keeping some mail for extended periods of time as a reminder
of things I need to follow-up on.  I understand that this is probably not an
intended use of any mailer, but I do find it useful.  Is there a time limit for
keeping old mail in the mailbox?  If not, is there a bug in Elm 2.2 PL0 that
causes this overwriting of mail to occur?  I'm trying to get our site up to PL10,
but I have so far been unable to obtain patch #2.  If my problem is fixed in one
of these patches, terrific.  If not, could it get put on a list of fixes for 2.2
or even 2.3?  Or, am I just abusing the intent of Elm and need to change my ways?
Any thoughts or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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Marv Yount (yountm@gtephx)
UUCP: {ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc}!gtephx!yountm
AG Communication Systems, Phoenix