jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) (05/27/89)
It has happened to me a couple times that when I refile an article in RMAIL using rmail-output-to-rmail-file (o), the message gets appended to the last message in the file (rather than being appended as another message in the file). This means I get messages with [end of prev. message] ^_ From: ... in them, as well as "*** EOOH ***", and so forth. I have two questions. It doesn't seem likely to me that this is emacs' fault. Any thoughts, though, on what might be causing this? (I'm hardly a novice emacs user.) Second, any thoughts on how to take several such appended messages and split them up again? In the past I have simply written them (using write-region) individually, deleted the message, and then read them back using rmail-input (i). This is a pain when you discover that ten or twenty messages have been so appended. -- ---------- Jeff Abrahamson jma@abel.uucp, abel!jma@manta.pha.pa.us UPenn Mathematics jma@grad1.cis.upenn.edu Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley
jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) (05/27/89)
In article <409@abel.UUCP> jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes: > > It has happened to me a couple times that when I refile an > article in RMAIL using rmail-output-to-rmail-file (o), the message gets > appended to the last message in the file (rather than being appended > as another message in the file). This means I get messages with > > [end of prev. message] > ^_ > From: ... > > in them, as well as "*** EOOH ***", and so forth. > I now think I know what causes the problem. Imagine the following: I have an emacs format mail file, ~/Mail/foo, created with RMAIL. Say it has three messages in it. Now I send a message with an Fcc: ~/Mail/foo. That message gets appended to foo in UNIX format (or, at least, not emacs format). If I now read in foo, it gets converted, since emacs looks at the last message in the file. But if I append an emacs format message (with rmail-output-to-rmail-file), the last file will be the correct format, so emacs won't convert it. I think this is at least roughly what is happenning, at least at the level of what *I'm* doing. I still don't know any good fix for it, though. Thoughts from the net? -- ---------- Jeff Abrahamson jma@abel.uucp, abel!jma@manta.pha.pa.us UPenn Mathematics jma@grad1.cis.upenn.edu Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley