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GNU Emacs 19.27.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.3, X toolkit)

I'm having trouble with RMAIL.  The easiest manifestation of this
problem appears when the "d" (rmail-delete-forward) key is pressed
while reading email.  Under certain circumstances, in addition to
deleting the message, the message counter *jumps* to the last message,
and the note appears at the bottom of the window "No following
undeleted messages."  I believe the problem is a manifestation of the
interaction between an rmail-summary file, and the RMAIL buffer.  To
instigate the problem:

1) Run RMAIL, and read all your current messages.

2) Generate a summary buffer by pressing "h" (rmail-summary).

3) delete the window (C-x 0) that contains the summary buffer, but
*DON'T* delete the emacs buffer (don't C-x k) containing the summary.

4) Send several (4?) email messages to yourself.

5) Move to your RMAIL buffer, and press "g" (rmail-get-new-mail).

6) Press "d" (rmail-delete-forward) and you will be told that there
are no more undeleted messages. (i.e., you will have skipped past
several of the messages you sent to yourself).


As a wild guess, I'd say that the summary buffer is not being updated,
but yet it is being consulted after the delete-message and a decision
is made that there are no more messages beyond the current message
number.  This probably generates the equivalent of a
"jump-to-last-message" along with the diagnostic "no-more-messages".

To work around the problem (and various other manifestations, delete
the summary buffer completely.

Jim

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