rmail blows up

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From: wolfgang
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 13:09

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In GNU Emacs 18.54.1 of Wed May 10 1989 on a sun3 (berkeley-unix)

Observed on a Sun3 running mmdf:

"M-x rmail" occasionally blows up, signaling an error.
"args out of range ...."

Attempting to save the file via rmail-expunge-and-save meets with
another error at rmail-show-message:goto-char (nil).

The immidiate problem is that rmail-messages-vector is a 
vector of markers not pointing anywhere.

This problem is not frequent enough to observe the bug in action via
single stepping any particular (rmail).

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang Rupprecht	ARPA:  wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114)
TEL: (703) 768-2640	UUCP:  mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang

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Subject: rmail blows up
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