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From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: losing mail with nnml in 0.18
Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:16:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8sd99xkkzu.fsf@surt.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: raeburn@cygnus.com's message of 08 Dec 1995 18:32:09 -0800

raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn) writes:

> A couple days ago I partially finished an rdist of my nnml hierarchy
> to another machine.  This directory may not have been done, but the
> active file was.  It had no entry for list.mit.zephyr at all.  So my
> guess is that nnml-generate... omits empty (but existing) directories,
> confusing the code for filing new messages.
> 
> If this is a problem caused by an earlier version, sinced fixed, and
> I'm only just noticing it now, feel free to ignore me.  Well,
> actually, please tell me, so I'll stop worrying about losing more mail
> in the future...

It's a bug that hasn't been fixed yet.  I've been wringing my brain
for a few weeks trying to remember just what was wrong with
`nnml-generate-nov-databases', but I just couldn't recall what it
was.  

It's annoying being a total amnesiac.

-- 
Home is where the cat is.


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1995-12-09  2:32 Ken Raeburn
1995-12-10 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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