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From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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Subject: elm trashes mailboxes
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>Number:         1894
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       elm trashes mailboxes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    ache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 26 11:30:01 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 27 11:42:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 27 11:44:20 PST 1996
>Originator:     Adam David
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Veda Internet
>Environment:

	NFS mounted /var/mail, elm and procmail configured with flock()
	and dot locking. Elm is installed setgid mail.

>Description:

	while starting elm (and possibly at other times) a discrepancy
	is detected between the size of the mailbox and the temp file.
	Elm does an emergency bailout, claiming to leave files intact,
	but the mailbox is truncated towards the end.

	[perhaps unrelated, it is now possible to invoke multiple instances
	of elm from different hosts, but this might be solely due to using
	separate temp dirs.]

>How-To-Repeat:

	?

>Fix:
	
	?

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->ache 
Responsible-Changed-By: max 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Oct 26 13:13:47 PDT 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Andrey is the port maintainer. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ache 
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 27 11:42:01 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
It will be better to address this issue to Elm maintainer, 
not to port maintainer. It isn't FreeBSD-related bug. 
>Unformatted:
