[23808] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.2.16: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Aug 27 16:08:16 2003
Message-Id: <200308272008.h7RK8F1x018530@abulia.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:08:15 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
System name: abulia.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.2.16 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
I ran MH "comp" to begin composing new mail, then quit, without
sending the message, but saving the draft (under ~/Mail/drafts/),
to be continued later.
What's wrong:
Subsequently, when I returned to the draft, via "comp -use",
I saw that the beginning had been trashed by evolution, which
I had run after quitting the initial comp. It appears that
evolution replaces the separator line (i.e. 8 dashes) and the
first paragraph of the body (i.e. everything up to the first
blank line) with a header line of the form:
X-Evolution: nnnnnnnn-mmmm
where nnnnnnnn appears to be the message number in hex; mmmm
is 0000 in the two examples I have looked at. So apparently
evolution, in trying to insert its own message header, is
not recognizing the dashed line as a separator.
What should have happened:
Perhaps evolution should leave the MH drafts folder alone.
If it insists on editing the drafts headers, it should at
least preserve the message body intact, by recognizing the
dashed line as a separator.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
I noticed that evolution has a setting for the drafts folder;
for the MH account, it defaults to "Drafts" in "Local Folders";
I tried changing it to "drafts" in "Old MH Mail", but that did
not seem to make any difference in the behavior described
above. If there is another setting to change this, it is
not obvious to me.
