Re: [Evolution] Evo splitting messages in odd ways

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev intechnology co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:47 -0400, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:
> Every so often Evo seems to split an incoming message in two.  The
> symptoms are usually a message with the bottom half missing, sometimes
> right after the headers, sometimes further into the body, and a second
> message in my inbox with no subject, no sender, and no date in the
> message listing pane, and when I display it it invariably looks like the
> tail end of some other message.

Is this happening at random points in the message, or could it be
happening where the first word on a line is "From "?

> Mail here is delivered locally to a mailhub machine whose
> /var/spool/mail directory is NFS mounted to clients like mine.  

Thats brave.  I tried that for a while 10 years back, and decided that
NFS locking was such that there was no way I was going to do mbox
delivery over NFS (unless there was ever only one machine touching the
mailbox).

> I have
> my evo mail account set up with a server type set as "Local Delivery",
> meaning evo periodically checks the NFS mounted spool directory and
> moves any messages found there to my inbox under ~/evolution/local.  I
> mention this since it seems the likely place for where the process might
> be broken.

It is very likely that the locking on the mailbox is not NFS
resistant.  

        Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel Metheringham InTechnology co uk ]
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