[14954] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0J: rmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (danw@MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 12 10:56:01 1997
From: danw@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:55:49 EST
System name: technomage
Type and version: SPARC/4 8.0J (2 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
(I tried M-x report-emacs-bug, but it was just going to send it here
too, so I'll let you deal with forwarding it.)
What were you trying to do?
read my mail
What's wrong:
If any message has a ^_ (0x1F) in it, RMAIL loses horribly.
I know, you're thinking ``why would a message have a ^_ in
it?'' but it really does happen sometimes (probably due to
some other bug in some mailer). Actually, this might only
happen if the ^_ is the last character in the message.
`loses horribly' here means: (1) It beeps and says `cannot
convert to babyl format', (2) it appends all of your new
mail to the end of the last message in your RMAIL buffer, (3)
it leaves around a .newmail-po:danw file, meaning that if you
inc again, it just repeats steps 1-3.
(To fix it, you have to edit the offending ^_ out of the
.newmail file by hand and then re-inc.)
What should have happened:
I should have switched from RMAIL to vm a long time ago.
