[8044] in Athena Bugs
RMAIL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 26 12:15:42 1991
From: ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 12:16:07 -0400
To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Sun, 25 Aug 91 21:00:59 -0400 <9108260100.AA03355@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
>>>>> On Sun, 25 Aug 91 21:00:59 -0400, amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU said:
amgreene> I have about 20 messages in my rmail file which are
amgreene> flagged as "deleted" but which do not get expunged
amgreene> when I type "x" -- my guess is that they are messages
amgreene> which were deleted and then saved by ^X^C (save rmail?
amgreene> yes), rather than with the "S" command.
amgreene> expunging does not work. The only way to get rid of
amgreene> them seems to be by going to summary mode, going
amgreene> explicitly to the message, redeleting it, and
amgreene> explicitly expunging and saving "properly".
amgreene> I don't expect ^X^C to expunge for me, but I do expect
amgreene> the messages to get expunged next time; this was the
amgreene> behaviour until recently.
amgreene> - Rhu
Although emacs 18.57 can parse the RMAIL files generated by either 18.54
or 18.57, 18.54 can't correctly parse the labels in the BABYL format
generated by 18.57---there is backwards compatibility, but not full
compatibility. Providing that would *demand* going back to the old
BABYL format, in which case we'd sacrifice compatibility between our
version of RMAIL and what's used by the rest of the world---a problem
that will only increase with time. I think we should just patch
rmail.el* on the 72 system packs to DTWT and be done with it. Of
course, no one wants to do that.
-Calvin
