Re: [Evolution] Evo splitting messages in odd ways

["Norman P. B. Joseph" <joseph ctc com>]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:59, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> 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 "?

It -appears- to be random.  I never paid close attention to it (too much
"real" work to get done) until another user started pointing it out.


> > 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).

In practice here for nearly ten years it has never proved to be an
issue.  I don't discount that it -could- be an issue, but I can't grant
it too much weight without more evidence pointing that way.

-norm



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