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VM 5.35 and emacs 19.19 bug?

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 02:49
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Scott Smith writes:
 > (disclaimer: I'm no emacs or elisp expert...)
 > 
 > For some reason the function vm-compatible-folder-p is not performing
 > correctly for me, it returns nil on my system spool file, meaning I
 > guess that it thinks it is not a mail file.  This means I can never
 > incorporate new mail.  The workaround I'm using is to define the
 > function to vacuously return t.

Please send me the first five lines of your system mailbox.
There's likely something about it that VM doesn't like.  The
message assimilation code is more forgiving than the folder
compatibility code.

 > Other than that I've had no problems with 5.35.  I had a problem
 > related to an earlier post with vm 4.41/19.19, it would completely
 > hang my emacs process if the "To" field had too many names in it...
 > This caused me to upgrade.

I've heard this before and I have to say that I am confounded by
it.  I now have people using beta VM code just because they want
to use VM under Emacs, and the latest Emacs is buggier than VM. I
don't know who is being more irresponsible, the FSF for
encouraging unprepeared people to use their buggy code or me for
fixing VM so that it will run under it!
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From: kyle@crystal.WonderWorks.com (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: VM 5.35 and emacs 19.19 bug?
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