Re: merged messages mystery
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:35:24AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:04:43AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > Myself (using fetchmail and procmail) I have occasionnaly received
> > merged messages in which the bodies were joined by a thick slab of null
> > characters.
>
> This happens if the Box crashes while writing to the Mail Spool. Easiest
> thing to avoid this is to use maildir format instead of mailbox.
>
> If you see this without the Box crashing I am not sure what it is.
>
> Are you using reiserfs or nfs in your environment?
The boxes don't crash that often, they are Debian after all ;)
However they are on reiserfs. Is it bad?
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