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retransmitting incomplete message of 8/8

#98425
From: Phil Nelson
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1991 23:10
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Dear GNU

Sorry -- I sent this message on 8/8 but neglected to insert the
contents of the RMAIL file. Here is the entire message.

Subject: emacs bug

I use emacs 18.51.7 on a sun-4. The problem reported below happens
even with 
> emacs -q
(no .emacs file). I receive mail from somebody on my computer whose
login name is powers and whose personal name entry in /etc/passwd looks like
-------------------------------
Tom Powers (PN)
-------------------------------
I read this mail using rmail. (Below I copy the complete RMAIL file.
You can presumably generate this problem yourself with this file.) I
reply using r . My To: field is initialized as:
-----------------------------------
To: powers)
In-reply-to: Tom Powers - (PN's message of Thu, 8 Aug 91 22:37:22 EST
-----------------------------------
The errant paren in the To: field causes this message to disappear
without delivery, traceback, or error message!

Here is the RMAIL file:
----------------------------------
BABYL OPTIONS:
Version: 5
Labels:
Note:   This is the header of an rmail file.
Note:   If you are seeing it in rmail,
Note:    it means the file has no messages in it.
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Message-ID: <9108112310.AA00100@mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu!nelson

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X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,7f66f6f34fc78edc,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-11 16:10:19 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu!nelson
From: nelson@mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: retransmitting incomplete message of 8/8
Message-ID: <9108112310.AA00100@mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 91 23:10:19 GMT
Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
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