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Article #98432Lossage due to BABYL header in mail message body
From: Jose A. Fernandez
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1991 12:30
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1991 12:30
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Questions:
1. Is this a known RMAIL bug?
2. Is there a fix to this bug?
Suggested workaround:
I think the right thing to do is to move the (looking-at "BABYL OPTIONS")
expression out of the WHILE loop in RMAIL-CONVERT-TO-BABYL-FORMAT, but I
don't have sufficient information about the BABYL format, its history, and
its extent of usage to know that such a change won't break something else.
Information:
When I read my mail this morning, rmail complainted that it couldn't find
"^J_" (or something like that), leaving me with a partially BABYL'ized
RMAIL buffer and ~200 unread messages in my queue.
A big thank you to whoever staged mail delivery to the .newmail file!
After a couple of passes at RMAIL'ing the .newmail file, I realized that I
was losing because someone had sent a BABYL file header in the body of
their message; specifically, the header of the troublesome message was:
From gnulists@ai.mit.edu Wed Aug 14 18:31:49 1991
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 91 18:10:19 EST
From: nelson@mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu (Phil Nelson)
Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
Posted-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 91 18:10:19 EST
Message-Id: <9108112310.AA00100@mohlsun.physics.upenn.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Subject: retransmitting incomplete message of 8/8
I am using an rmail.el that: 1) came from emacs-18.57.tar.Z on
PREP.AI.MIT.EDU and 2) was patched with apollo-emacs.tar.Z on
LABREA.STANFORD.EDU (Leonard Zubkoff's (LNZ) modifications for the Apollo
environment). LNZ's rmail.el patch does not involve the
RMAIL-CONVERT-TO-BABYL-FORMAT function.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,4dfc4c1468d4af84,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-15 05:30:58 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!inference.COM!jaf From: jaf@inference.COM (Jose A. Fernandez) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Lossage due to BABYL header in mail message body Message-ID: <9108151230.AA15268@utah.inference> Date: 15 Aug 91 12:30:58 GMT Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Inference Corporation Lines: 38 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu