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Article #907Re: can't parse folder
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:36
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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