[comp.emacs] rmail problem

faunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Doug Faunt) (05/04/88)

Back in the dim dark ages of the net, I seem to recall having seen
a fix for this, which is in lisp/mail-utils.el:
   ;; This doesn't hack rfc822 nested comments
                        ;;  `(xyzzy (foo) whinge)' properly.  Big deal.
                        "[ \t]*(\\([^)\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\|\\\\\n\\)*)"

I can't locate it in my archives.  Does anybody have a fix?

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pml4791@rouge.usl.edu (Landry Patrick M) (10/05/89)

I am having a problem with rmail in a Sun NFS environment.
It seems that the data files in the sendmail mqueue directory
are not being deleted after a message is sent using rmail.
I am not familiar with rmail (one of my users is) so bear with me.
Here is the situation:
A user composes a message using rmail amd sends it. After
exiting emacs the 'df' file in sendmail's mqueue directory is
not deleted. It still has the text of the message in it. The other
files 'lf' 'qf' etc. are also still present in the mqueue
directory but theyu have a length of 0. The mqueue directory is
NFS mounted from a server.
Any help or leads will be greatly appreciated.
--
patrick
pml@usl.usl.edu
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davis@AI.MIT.EDU (Randall Davis) (06/13/91)

While in rmail, editing a message via the w command, I must have goofed, and
when going back to ordinary rmail mode (via C-c), I wound up with a confused
RMAIL file in which several messages have been appended into one, and the
attempt to step past the aggregated message now gets me an error message
of the form 
	Invaild search bound (wrong side of point)

Also, the header summarizing no longer works ("end of buffer" message).

Any suggestions on how to fix this?  (The rmail file is big enough that I'd
rather not trash it and start over.)