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Re: can't parse folder

#907
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:36
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John Burke  <jb@museumca.org> wrote:
 > >>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 >     Kyle> John Burke <jb@museumca.org> wrote:
 >     >> Suddenly, my incoming folder opens as a single file with the
 >     >> summary window blank and the message on the mode line
 >     >> "(unrecognized folder type)".  Is this a coding system error,
 >     >> or is the folder somehow corrupted?
 > 
 >     Kyle> VM determines the folder type by looking at the top of the
 >     Kyle> file.  Something must be wrong with the top of the file.  I
 >     Kyle> don't know what type of folder you normally use so I can't
 >     Kyle> tell you exactly what to look for.
 > 
 > Ok, here's the first few lines of my incoming folder (somehow,
 > the folder got corrupted as soon as I saved the below-mentioned
 > "links.htm" attachment to disk.  Can I blame Bill G?):

Doubtful, if you were running VM.  Did you save the message with
's', or did you use $ s or $ w to save a MIME object?

 > X-VM-Summary-Format: "%n %*[%4a]  %-26.26UB %-3.3m %2d %H  %4l/%-5c  %I\"%s\"\n"
 > X-VM-Labels: ("hot")

This is bad.  Assuming the usual UNIX From-style folders, the
first line of the folder should begin with 'From '.  A line like
this
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From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Re: can't parse folder
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:36:00 +0000 (UTC)
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