On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:49:52PM -0500, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Tim Tyler wrote: > > > 1. What is the consequence of elm and popping at the same time? How easy > > is it to repair? -note: I agree that it is probably rare that it would > > happen simultaneously, but I am sure it eventually will. > > When it happens, I've only ever seen the first few lines of the mailbox > get corrupted. Usually trimming down to the first "From x@y" does the > trick.
With pine, at least, I've several times seen message corruption scattered all the way through the file due to UIDLs getting updated into "random" places in the headers, and have had to hand-edit it and scrap large numbers of messages. I tend to assume the worst in this scenario. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau
