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rmail unable to get new mail from a Babyl file |
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Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:16:12 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
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Let `foo' be a Babyl format mail file:
emacs -Q
C-u M-x rmail RET foo RET
works fine. The individual messages are processed correctly.
emacs -Q
M-x rmail RET
C-u g foo RET
does not work correctly. Emacs says "No mail".
If the RMAIL buffer was empty originally, the raw Babyl file is dumped
into the buffer.
If there was mail originally, there is no apparent change in the RMAIL
buffer, but the Babyl file is invisibly appended to the end of the file.
At the least, Emacs should refuse to get new mail from a Babyl file if
it cannot handle it. Preferably, it should be able to handle it.
(This is unrelated to the latest Rmail changes.)
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Re: bug#2942: rmail unable to get new mail from a Babyl file |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:47:44 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 2942@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:23:45 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Where did the Babyl file come in the first place?
>
> From Emacs 22.3. (I'm not sure what you're getting at.)
>
> Emacs 22.3 `C-u g' will happily take either a Babyl or mbox file as
> input, converting it to the appropriate format. I don't see why this
> should be different now.
I think I fixed it. Please try the latest CVS.
(There's an unrelated -- or so I think -- bug in unrmail, whereby some
messages are badly converted from Babyl -- e.g., they get two
X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES headers. But that happens even if you type
"C-u M-x rmail RET foo RET". I'm working on this.)
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