daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) (07/26/88)
My emacs was running on a system that was short of swap space. While
reading in new mail to an RMAIL buffer, I got an "out of memory" error.
Emacs had not read the mail into the buffer, and the mail was gone.
It would be a good idea to keep mail around until it has been read in OK
and the save of the RMAIL file completed.
-dB
"Ready when you are Raoul!"
{amdahl, cpsc6a, mtxinu, sun, hoptoad}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.com <- FINALLY!nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) (07/26/88)
In article <2343@rtech.rtech.com> daveb@llama.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: >My emacs was running on a system that was short of swap space. While >reading in new mail to an RMAIL buffer, I got an "out of memory" error. >Emacs had not read the mail into the buffer, and the mail was gone. >It would be a good idea to keep mail around until it has been read in OK >and the save of the RMAIL file completed. This is indeed what happens. Your mail gets copied into ~/.newmail from the spool area, then it gets copies into the RMAIL buffer, and *then* ~/.newmail is deleted. So, if you get an error while the RMAIL buffer is copying the mail from the spool area, ~/.newmail will contain what was in /usr/spool/mail/<user>. --woodstock -- "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?" ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb|pur-ee|qantel|amd}!intelca!mipos3!nate <domainish> : nate@mipos3.intel.com ATT : (408) 765-4309