[7560] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh troubles...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Nelson)
Tue Apr 11 22:45:58 2000
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:44:35 -0400
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From: Greg Nelson <gnelson@MIT.EDU>
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i think it worked. Thank you.
greg
At 08:00 PM 4/11/2000 , you wrote:
>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
>
