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Hello,

I decided (after looking at the FAQ and some other docs) yesterday that
MH was something I was looking for (to process large amounts of mail
without drowning).  However, I ran into some problems and am checking if
somebody has any ideas.

(For what it is worth, I have not chosen an interface yet, but will
probably use MH-e.)

My ~/.mh_profile is:

Path: Mail

and My folders look like:

marlin:~>ls -l Mail
total 5
-rw-------  1 pss            22 Oct 23 14:37 context
drwx--S---  2 pss           512 Oct 23 14:11 drafts
drwx--S---  2 pss           512 Oct 23 14:09 inbox
drwxrwsr-x  2 pss          1536 Oct 23 14:34 rmail

I wanted to convert my rmail file to MH and store the messages in the
+rmail folder.

When I run babyl2mh.pl (from the end of the FAQ - the one by # V. Khera
<khera@cs.duke.edu>), the program converts some messages and then I get
a segment fault and it dumps core.  To get a closer look, I looked
through the script and it seems to be fine.  It dumps core when (looked
through the perl debugger) it is trying to remove the duplicate Rmail
header. Here is a sample header on which this seg faulted (The first
character in the $_ will be ^L ...):

---- header begins --
^_^L
1,,
Summary-line:  7-Oct          Valther Rasmussen  #Re: Solaris
2.3/SBA-200 Problem
Mail-from: From var@danosi.dk Fri Oct  7 06:04:29 1994
Return-Path: <var@danosi.dk>
Received: from fore.com (relay) by dolphin.fore.com (4.1/SMI-4.1)
        id AA09499; Fri, 7 Oct 94 06:04:22 EDT
Errors-To: ej@danosi.dk
Received: from ns.dknet.dk (ns.dknet.dk [193.88.44.42]) by fore.com
(8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMT
P id GAA03721 for <support@fore.com>; Fri, 7 Oct 1994 06:02:07 -0400
Received: from danosi by ns.dknet.dk with UUCP id AA26290
  (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for support@fore.com); Fri, 7 Oct 1994 11:03:29
+0100
Received: from cc.danosi.dk (cc-smtp) by danosi.dk (4.1/SMI-4.1)
        id AA01163; Fri, 7 Oct 94 11:03:22 +0100
Errors-To: ej@danosi.dk
Received: from cc:Mail by cc.danosi.dk
        id AA781520489; Fri, 07 Oct 94 11:01:29 MET
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 11:01:29 MET
From: "Valther Rasmussen" <var@danosi.dk>
Encoding: 16 Text, 450 Text
Message-Id: <9409077815.AA781520489@cc.danosi.dk>
To: support@fore.com
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.3/SBA-200 Problem
X-Charset: ASCII
X-Char-Esc: 29

*** EOOH ***
Return-Path: <var@danosi.dk>
Errors-To: ej@danosi.dk
Errors-To: ej@danosi.dk
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 11:01:29 MET
From: "Valther Rasmussen" <var@danosi.dk>
Encoding: 16 Text, 450 Text
To: support@fore.com
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.3/SBA-200 Problem
X-Charset: ASCII
X-Char-Esc: 29

---- header ends --

and here is the relevant (I think) part of the code:
...
...

while (<BABYL>) {
  chop;		# get rid of delimeter
  s/\f(.|\n)*\*\*\* EOOH \*\*\*\n//;	# remove duplicate header
information
  open(RCVSTORE,"|" . $rcvstore . " $folder");
  print RCVSTORE $_;
  $msgnum++;
  print "Message $msgnum done.\n";
}
...
...
Is this known not to work in some cases?

The perl verion I have is:

$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.4 $$Date: 91/06/10 01:23:07 $
Patch level: 10

I have also tried the following:

$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.8 $$Date: 1993/02/05 19:39:30 $
Patch level: 36

with the same results.

I could not charecterize on what messages this seems to happen.  A
common (but not always) thing I observed is that they are large
messages.   

I just tried the other script "inco" and that seems to have worked.
(pretty good, using emacs in the batch mode)

Let me know if you have any ideas.  Thanks.

--
Pragnesh Sampat

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