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- From: jason@research.att.com (Jason Eisner)
- Subject: rmail-get-new-mail doesn't separate the messages in mbox
- Message-ID: <m0mQNlj-00000fC@mjones.research.att.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:27:00 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 73
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- M-x emacs-version reports:
- GNU Emacs 18.58.1 of Fri May 15 1992 on mariah (berkeley-unix)
-
- Info's description of the intended performance:
- The file you read with `i' does not have to be in Rmail file format.
- It could also be Unix mail format, or mmdf format; or it could be a
- mixture of all three, as long as each message belongs to one of the
- three formats. Rmail recognizes all three and converts all the
- messages to proper Rmail format before showing you the file.
-
- The actual performance:
- rmail-get-new-mail reads a two-message mbox file as if it contained
- one long message. It's very inconvenient to separate the messages
- again.
-
- Reproducing the bug:
- This bug is very easy to reproduce on my machine. I use xemacs -q
- to start emacs. Then I start rmail. The following mbox file shows
- the problem. (This mbox file is correctly scanned as 2 messages by
- mail -f.)
-
- /home/jason/mbox (indented 3 spaces, with --- before and after):
- ---
-
- From jason Thu Sep 3 16:08:46 1992 EDT
- To: jason
- Subject: blah 1
-
- blah blah blah (one)
-
-
- From jason Thu Sep 3 16:09:02 1992 EDT
- To: jason
- Subject: blah 2
-
- blah blah blah (two)
-
- ---
-
- How the mbox file was produced:
- I sent the following two messages to myself using C-x m.
-
- ---
- To: jason
- Subject: blah 1
- FCC: /home/jason/mbox
- --text follows this line--
- blah blah blah (one)
- ---
- To: jason
- Subject: blah 2
- FCC: /home/jason/mbox
- --text follows this line--
- blah blah blah (two)
- ---
-
- A dribble file for the session in which I reproduced the bug
- (in od format). bug.send1 and bug.send2 are the two message
- files shown above.
- ---
- 0000000 014155 015474 015476 013430 064542 072547 027163 062556
- 0000020 062061 006403 001430 066401 015476 013430 064542 072547
- 0000040 027163 062556 062062 006403 001433 074162 066541 064554
- 0000060 006430 001571
- 0000064
- ---
-
- Have fun. Let me know if you need any more information.
-
- regards, jason eisner. <jason@research.att.com>
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