For some reason, the INBOX folder was reporting 1100 GIGAbyte size and
therefore the 1.6GB drive was report zero free space. This was, however,
initially not noticed by me (since the drive is on another computer, via
LAN)...
Three imports of mail+news were run, each showing some items for INBOX
and yet none of these imports resulted in "You have new mail" appearing;
after the third time (the mind is slow at 3 a.m.!), I looked in the actual
import file and found legitimate incoming mail which should have shown as
new mail. That's when I discovered the zero free space on the drive.
The matter of the gigantic INBOX i will leave until later, as there may
be some strange but famous 'uqwk tailings' in there messing up the size
count...
BUT the concern I have now is that there was NO ERROR MESSAGE or other
indication from Yarn that the new mail failed to be written into the
INBOX folder...
Chin ... should that be ? ? ?
PS: Not only the above, but restoring the just imported (and not
shown) mail packet again resulted in a display of about a dozen letters
for INBOX and NO additional mail actually in the inbox, _and_ no change
to "You have new mail" -- so apparently the IDs of the letters were
registered the first import, when the letters could not be added to the
inbox, and now it's not possible to import them because they appear to
be duplicates. (I guess I'll have to unzip the packet and read them
RAW from the .MSG file!)
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Jim Cooper w2jc@ritz.mordor.com
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"Knowledge of history is the precondition of political intelligence.
Without history, a society shares no common memory of where it has been
[or] what it core values are."
- 'National Standards for United States History' as reprinted in _Time_,
Nov. 7, 1994
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