[comp.mail.elm] doesn't elm handle HANGUP signals?

edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson) (04/17/91)

Whenever elm is re-loading my mailbox, after having made some changes to
it, if I get logged out (say by a phone call when I'm on the modem, or if I
just shut my terminal off before its done) my mailbox gets truncated!  This
has happened to me nearly a dozen times now, luckily I am able to ask
someone to restore it from backups, but I would think elm should be able to
finish its work when it gets any signal except SIGKILL or SIGSTOP.

Is this an installation problem, or is this the way elm is coded?  Can this
be changed?  Does this happen to anyone else?

Thanks,
		--eric