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from: andrew clarke
date: 2003-02-22 13:29:38
subject: msgbase corruption

Sat 2003-02-22 13:27, andrew clarke (3:633/267) wrote to All:

 ac>> So the moral of the story is that timEd 1.11 will probably the
 ac>> message base of the area when you're in the middle of writing a
 ac>> message in that area and and you toss mail into it in the
 ac>> background.  Which is not so good.  And not very easy to test for. 
 ac>> But when I get a chance I'll have a look.  Actually I just thought
 ac>> of a way to test it.

 ac> Alternatively it may just be that PostMsg needs to do something that
 ac> it's not doing, but I somehow doubt that.

Actually, I just tested it, and it's a bug in timEd.  :-(

Don't toss mail in the background while you're writing a message!

To be fixed soon...

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