Re: Rmail-mbox does not support the "stored" attribute

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:44:04 -0500
> 
> What is the "stored" attribute?

It is the attribute which was set by the rmail-output-body-to-file
command.

> Maybe I renamed it to avoid a coincidence of letters.

It doesn't look like that: the portion of that command which was
setting the attribute was simply deleted.  Here's the relevant hunk of
the diffs between the pre-mbox rmailout.el and the current one:

     (defun rmail-output-body-to-file (file-name)
       "Write this message body to the file FILE-NAME.
    @@ -410,11 +584,9 @@
         (and (file-exists-p file-name)
             (not (y-or-n-p (format "File %s exists; overwrite? " file-name)))
             (error "Operation aborted"))
    -    (write-region (point) (point-max) file-name)
    -    (if (equal major-mode 'rmail-mode)
    -   (rmail-set-attribute "stored" t)))
    +    (write-region (point) (point-max) file-name))
       (if rmail-delete-after-output
           (rmail-delete-forward)))