[comp.mail.elm] Lost Mailbox in Elm 2.1 over NFS.

indra@pepsi.amd.com (Indra K. Singhal) (02/14/89)

Was running Elm 2.1 PL1 on a diskless Sun workstation with /usr/spool/mail
mounted off of a remote Sun NFS file server. While reading mail, I received new
mail (newmail displayed output.) following that, the new message was the
only message available. I essentially lost my entire mailbox. Has this been
noticed before ?

(I know, I should have ^Z'd out and made a copy of /tmp/mbox.indra... but
who ever thinks of such smart things while in the middle of...) 

Indra K. Singhal                      
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