[comp.mail.elm] Elm destroys the mailbox if filesystem is out of space.

davis@rm1.UUCP (Gary A. Davis) (11/08/89)

From article <1195@radig.uucp>, by peter@radig.uucp (Peter Radig):
> Today I invoked Elm 2.2.13 to read my mailbox containing about 45 messages.
> But what I didn't know this time that my root filesystem (which has also the
> /usr-filesystem) was full or nearly full (about 20 blocks free).
> 
> While trying to read the mail I got the message "premature end of file". I
> quitted Elm and now all the messages were gone...


I had the same problem last week with PL10!

Gary
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