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Re: HELP: Linux VM not reading mail saved with Sun VM

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From: Julian Bradfield
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:27
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In article <1189010038.394204.230760@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
 <svfsps@rit.edu> wrote:
>This is an odd problem.  I'm using VM 7.19, and for a year had saved
>mail to a folder on a Sun machine (uname -a gives SunOS smith 5.9
>Generic_122300-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000).  I returned from
>sabbatical, booted up my linux box (Linux piggy.cis.rit.edu
>2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux),
>and copied the mailfolders over to the Linux box.
>
>I fired up vm, tried to read the folder, and folders that had 155
>messages now were showing only 38.  The file is unchanged (compared
>size), and I can't find any particular aspect of the missing
>messages.  They're still there, just not read.  A sample mailfolder is
>at http://piggy.cis.rit.edu/franklin/tmp/coed.  On Linux, I see 38
>messages.  On the Sun, 155.

Set vm-trust-From_-with-Content-Length to t on your Linux box.

See C-h C-f vm-get-folder-type
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!62.253.162.218.MISMATCH!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!xara.net!gxn.net!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!not-for-mail
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From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
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Subject: Re: HELP:  Linux VM not reading mail saved with Sun VM
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:27:54 +0000 (UTC)
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