🚀 go-pugleaf

All my folders are in what I gather is called MMDF format.  I just switched
from MH to VM; these folders were all made by the MH `packf' command.
The messages are separated by two lines each containing four control-As.

I was pleased to see that VM reads these folders just fine, and everything
was peachy.  Then I got some mail.  And I filed it away in some of these
folders.  Silly me.

Now I have a bunch of folders half in ^A^A^A^A format, and have in Unix
mail format ("From ..." lines as delimiters).  VM seems to want one flavor
or the other, and disapprove severely of the mix.  It sees a ^A^A^A^A and
decides that no "From "s will appear in that folder, so it doesn't look for
them.  It's not consisent, however.  When saving things to such a folder,
it uses "From ..." lines, not ^A^A^A^As, to delimit the new messages.
So now I have folders which VM thinks contain some really long messages
with "From ..." in the middle.

This is most annoying.

I have solved this problem for myself in the short run (I think) with a
silly awk script that converts the ^A^A^A^As in my folders into bogus From
lines.  Nonetheless, this problem is annoying.

Will the sky fall if you do
(re-search-forward "^\\(\^a\^a\^a\^a\\)\\|\\(From \\)")?

At the very least, when you figure out what format a folder is in,
append new messages to it in the same format!

Grumble, grumble, grumble.

If I sound less than thrilled with VM, I'm sorry.  It has some very nice
features.  Nice enough, in fact, that I decided to switch to VM from MH
(mh-e is not too sexy).  If I hadn't been bitten by this, and some erratic
bugs I haven't managed to track down, I'd be singing the praises of VM high
and low.