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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh should be more careful about when it unlinks draft files

2017-01-02 19:10:15
In a message of Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:42:19 +0700, Robert Elz writes:
   Date:        Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:45:36 -0500
   From:        Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
   Message-ID:  
<20170102204537(_dot_)C39325AD32(_at_)pb-smtp1(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com>


 | Based on what you describe, I suspect what happened is that your digest
 | bursting program overwrite your draft file between "repl" and "send",
 | and your "send" sucessfully sent the digest.

I was thinking the same, almost - my suspicion is that the digest burst
and transmit destroyed the draft (as you suggest) and the the lack of the
draft file is what caused Laura's send to fail/abort.   By the time that
happened (even if nmh were capable of doing anything rational at that point)
the draft was probably already gone.

I would suggest using -draftfolder in all automated sending programs/scripts,
it avoids any problems of this nature, but can also make it easier to debug
any problems with the automated script.

kre

Okay, will do.  Apologies for the complaint; I had forgotten all about
the automated script (not only that it existed, but that it was running
on the machine where I don't usually read my mail, but was using at the
time).

Laura

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