Re: [Nmh-workers] [exmh-workers] Second release candidate for nmh 1.5 is now available

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 7 May 2012 at 19:58, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Ken wrote:
> > Kevin wrote:
> > > Impossible for me to tell after the 'inc' as the spool file is
> > > empty.  When my email notifier (xlbiff*) pops up I'll have a look
> > > at the spool prior to 'inc'.
> 
> Perhaps you could have a new `inc' earlier in PATH that copies the mail
> spool file to somewhere with a timestamp, e.g. date +%s.%N, and then
> runs nmh's inc.  That way you'd have a backlog of spool files to peruse
> once the problem occurs again.

That's a great idea!  But, I found one incidence of a spool file 
being messed up the brute force way, by keeping an editor open on my 
spool file.

Thanks....


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Kevin