How to have OUTGOING mail in an RMAIL file

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2 total messages Started by Lawrence R. Dodd Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:10

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Author: Lawrence R. Dodd
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:10

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>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher J Biggs <cjb@cs.uq.oz.au> writes:

  Christopher>   How do I get the emacs mail routine to put copies of outgoing mail
  Christopher> in a file that i can read with RMAIL.  The FCC header is (I presume)
  Christopher> processed by sendmail, and sendmail doesn't include enough headers 
  Christopher> in the saved message for rmail to be able to split my outbox file into
  Christopher> separate message.  Thus if I use FCC: ~/outbox, and I read outbox
  Christopher> into RMAIL, It just appears as one big message, no matter how many
  Christopher> letters I send.   

  Christopher>   Has somebody got a function that will append a buffer to the end
  Christopher> of an RMAIL file, or something, or is there an improved version of mail?

I believe that is a bug in emacs.  Here is an excerpt from the info pages for
the FAQ.

.........
File: efaq.info,  Node: Question 155,  Next: Question 156,  Prev: Question 154,  Up: Chapter 6

Why does RMAIL think all my saved messages are one big message?
===============================================================

        There is a bug for FCC-ed messages in Emacs 18.58 where it adds
a timezone on the "From " line after the year instead of before the
year.  (Before it didn't add the timezone at all.)  This is
incompatible with the standard format for the "From " line, and RMAIL
in particular can no longer distinguish between the messages.  Karl
Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu>, Felix Lee <flee@cs.psu.edu>, Nick Gianniotis
<nico@japan.sbi.com> and many others have all posted patches for this. 
Karl's is the simplest and just stops Emacs from adding the timezone:

            >*** ./ORIG/sendmail.el        Tue Jan 28 16:22:56 1992
            >--- ./sendmail.el        Thu May 14 18:23:48 1992
            >***************
            >*** 285,287 ****
            >        (insert "\nFrom " (user-login-name) " "
            >!               (current-time-string) " " timezone "\n")
            >        (insert-buffer-substring rmailbuf)
            >--- 285,287 ----
            >        (insert "\nFrom " (user-login-name) " "
            >!               (current-time-string) "\n")
            >        (insert-buffer-substring rmailbuf)

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How to have OUTGOING mail in an RMAIL file

#2199

Author: cjb
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:36

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   Thanks for the help with emacs RMAIL and FCC..
 I actually read the FAQ quite recently, I guess it
was foolish of me not to recall that question.  
 Anyway, thanks for the help!
			      Chris.

 Christopher J Biggs   cjb@cs.uq.oz.au   | "You can have peace.  Or you can  
 Department of Computer Science,         | have freedom.  Don't ever count on 
 The University of Queensland, Australia | having both at once."--Lazarus Long 
------------veni vidi nuclei deceiri - I came, I saw, I dumped core------------

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