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- From: dodd@roebling.poly.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: How to have OUTGOING mail in an RMAIL file
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:10:23 -0500
- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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-
- >>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher J Biggs <cjb@cs.uq.oz.au> writes:
-
- Christopher> How do I get the emacs mail routine to put copies of outgoing mail
- Christopher> in a file that i can read with RMAIL. The FCC header is (I presume)
- Christopher> processed by sendmail, and sendmail doesn't include enough headers
- Christopher> in the saved message for rmail to be able to split my outbox file into
- Christopher> separate message. Thus if I use FCC: ~/outbox, and I read outbox
- Christopher> into RMAIL, It just appears as one big message, no matter how many
- Christopher> letters I send.
-
- Christopher> Has somebody got a function that will append a buffer to the end
- Christopher> of an RMAIL file, or something, or is there an improved version of mail?
-
- I believe that is a bug in emacs. Here is an excerpt from the info pages for
- the FAQ.
-
- .........
- File: efaq.info, Node: Question 155, Next: Question 156, Prev: Question 154, Up: Chapter 6
-
- Why does RMAIL think all my saved messages are one big message?
- ===============================================================
-
- There is a bug for FCC-ed messages in Emacs 18.58 where it adds
- a timezone on the "From " line after the year instead of before the
- year. (Before it didn't add the timezone at all.) This is
- incompatible with the standard format for the "From " line, and RMAIL
- in particular can no longer distinguish between the messages. Karl
- Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu>, Felix Lee <flee@cs.psu.edu>, Nick Gianniotis
- <nico@japan.sbi.com> and many others have all posted patches for this.
- Karl's is the simplest and just stops Emacs from adding the timezone:
-
- >*** ./ORIG/sendmail.el Tue Jan 28 16:22:56 1992
- >--- ./sendmail.el Thu May 14 18:23:48 1992
- >***************
- >*** 285,287 ****
- > (insert "\nFrom " (user-login-name) " "
- >! (current-time-string) " " timezone "\n")
- > (insert-buffer-substring rmailbuf)
- >--- 285,287 ----
- > (insert "\nFrom " (user-login-name) " "
- >! (current-time-string) "\n")
- > (insert-buffer-substring rmailbuf)
-
- .........
-