Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!think!think.com From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: rmail, gnews, and mailbox formats Keywords: rmail, babyl, mmdf, mbox, MM, gnews Message-ID: <29311@news.Think.COM> Date: 12 Sep 89 14:07:56 GMT References: <5245@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Distribution: usa Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 30 In-reply-to: alderson@portia.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) In article <5245@portia.Stanford.EDU>, alderson@portia (Rich Alderson) writes: ]I'm having a little trouble with mail files in different formats. As I under- ]stand it, rmail is (should be) able to read several different mail-file formats ]and convert them to babyl-style. It also claims to write out both babyl- and ]mbox- (unix-mail) style files on request. It understands Unix format, Babyl format, and MMDF format. It does not understand Twenex MM format. ]Now, when I wanted to turn to rmail as my primary mail reader (having convinced ]myself that it's pretty much the same as Babyl under ITS or Tops-20), I decided ]to convert all those save files from "mbox" to "babyl" format. That's the ]problem: Any file saved in "mbox" format, with any number of messages, comes ]into rmail as a single message. What version of emacs are you using? I've never had this problem. Conceivably gnews could be doing something weird. ]What am I doing wrong? (NB: The answer to this question is neither "Use GNUS" ]nor "Use VM"--I'd like to explore rmail for a while before I go on from there.) I'm certainly not going to tell you that; I use rmail (I was actually a developer of it), and I beta-tested gnews and still use it. I won't be able to do anything about this for a while, as I'm about to go on vacation, but I'd be curious about it. Can you leave me a sample output file where I can ftp it anonymously and send me mail about where it is? -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111