rudolf@turing.ac.uk (Jim Rudolf) (01/07/91)
After saving news articles, I like to be able to access them with my mailer, therefore, they should be saved in mailbox format. But xrn doesn't save articles with a From: line first. I've tried playing with the -saveMode option, but haven't been able to get it to do what I want, which is equivalent to the -M option in good old rn. Can anyone help? Please respond via e-mail. Thanks, -- Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Rudolf The Turing Institute rudolf@turing.ac.uk
raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja) (01/09/91)
In article <1991Jan7.121001.1463@postmaster@turing.ac.uk>, (Jim Rudolf) writes: < After saving news articles, I like to be able to access them with < my mailer, therefore, they should be saved in mailbox format. But < xrn doesn't save articles with a From: line first. I've tried playing < with the -saveMode option, but haven't been able to get it to do I hope you're using -saveMode mailbox, etc. That should work (does for me). However, due to a bug in "mail", every line in the saved file which starts with "From" is interpreted as a new mail. For example, if one of the saved articles contains the lines From here to there.. From me to you mail will interpret them as 2 new messages: ------------------------------------------------ Mail version SMI 4.0 Wed Feb 7 23:10:16 PST 1990 Type ? for help. "try": 2 messages 2 new >N 1 here to there.. 12/139 N 2 me to you 3/31 & ------------------------------------------------ This is a mail bug, not an xrn problem. A kludge would be to replace all "From"s which occur as the first word in a line with "from"s. Happy new year, Narayan Sriranga Raja.