[7559] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh troubles...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Apr 11 20:00:20 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:00:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
To: "Gregory Neville Nelson Jr." <gnelson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gregory Neville Nelson Jr. wrote:
> I have never been able to send email through exmh and i asked a couple of people in the sipb office, but they said to email the errors that come up to this email address.
> "SeditSend /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/g/n/gnelson/Mail/exmh drafts/16 .sedit16.f.t"
Hm. My guess is that this is caused by exmh's poor quoting of
filenames. (It looks like you have whitespace in the name
of your drafts folder.)
You can check if this is the case by running
mhparam Draft-Folder
and seeing if the output is
exmh drafts
If this is the case, a quick fix for your own sake would be to
1) edit your ~/.mh_profile file, and change the Draft-Folder
line to point at a folder without whitespace in its name.
2) rename ("mv") your current Draft-Folder to the new name that
you specified in step 1.
For example, if your ~/.mh_profile has the line
Draft-Folder: exmh drafts
you could change it to
Draft-Folder: drafts
and then you could finish up by running (from the athena% prompt)
mv ~/Mail/"exmh drafts" ~/Mail/"drafts"
If this is the wrong diagnosis, please write back.
I'll try to do something about exmh's quoting rules, but I don't
know if it will happen very quickly.
Sincerely,
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
MIT SIPB
