unbalanced parentheses after "To" makes for trouble

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2 total messages Started by Gilbert Harman Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:39

#69

Author: Gilbert Harman
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:39

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Using vm-mail, I inadvertantly sent a message with
unbalanced parentheses in the To line.

 To: (Cog Studies Program

the actual people getting the message, including myself,
being listed on the Bcc: line.

When I next tried to read my mail using vm, I got an error
message to the effect that the variable "address-start" was
undefined and I couldn't read new mail (including the Bcc
copy to myself and the various bounced copies coming from
other machines).

I was able to correct the problem by using find-file to read
my INBOX and then deleting the offending messages.

	Gil Harman
--

	Gilbert Harman, Princeton University Cognitive Science Lab
	221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
	ghh@clarity.princeton.edu

unbalanced parentheses after "To" makes for trouble

#44

Author: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:03

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Gilbert Harman writes:
 > Using vm-mail, I inadvertantly sent a message with
 > unbalanced parentheses in the To line.
 > 
 >  To: (Cog Studies Program
 > 
 > the actual people getting the message, including myself,
 > being listed on the Bcc: line.
 > 
 > When I next tried to read my mail using vm, I got an error
 > message to the effect that the variable "address-start" was
 > undefined and I couldn't read new mail (including the Bcc
 > copy to myself and the various bounced copies coming from
 > other machines).

Hmmm, that's bad.  This doesn't sound like VM code, but rather
something from rfc822.el.  I'll probably have to stop using the
particular routine involved.

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