[ This is a Mail mode bug. --kyle ]
This is not a new problem; I noticed it previously with 6.63.
Problem: VM writes to the FCC outgoing mail file even when sending the
message fails. I think the correct behavior (to be an accurate record of
what was actually sent) should be that it only gets written if the mail
was successfully sent.
Example: I am always running out of memory since I generally have 2 mail
files open, each 10-30 MB large. When this happens, I occasionally get
"Can't fork: bad file number" error when trying to get new mail, send
mail, or open a new buffer. This happens until I increase my swap space,
kill one of the large mail buffers, or kill other system processes.
But that's a different problem I have to cope with...
In any case, when I try to send a mail message in this situation, it fails
with the above error, but still appends it to my folder specified in the
FCC header. If I then try to clear up some memory and resend, it gets
written to the folder again with a different timestamp and message ID. I
think it should wait until it successfully sends it before writing to the
FCC file.
Thanks,
jfw
Emacs : XEmacs 20.4 "Emerald" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1) of Thu Aug 27 1998 on jwhitehe-sun
Package: VM 6.72
current state:
==============
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!
!
rom:\\|X-Spam\\|X-Sun-Charset:\\|X-VM-\\|X-Zippy-Sez:\\|X400-\\|Xref:\\)"
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native-sound scrollbar network-streams subprocesses menubar dbm
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c-balloon-help)
)
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