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From: raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Saving articles in xrn
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.044332.1317@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 91 04:43:32 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.121001.1463@postmaster@turing.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Jan7.121001.1463@postmaster@turing.ac.uk>, (Jim Rudolf) writes:

< After saving news articles, I like to be able to access them with
< my mailer, therefore, they should be saved in mailbox format.  But
< xrn doesn't save articles with a From: line first.  I've tried playing
< with the -saveMode option, but haven't been able to get it to do


I hope you're using  -saveMode mailbox, etc.
That should work (does for me).

However, due to a bug in "mail", every line
in the saved file which starts with "From"
is interpreted as a new mail.  For example,
if one of the saved articles contains the
lines


From here to there..
From me to you


mail will interpret them as 2 new messages:

------------------------------------------------
Mail version SMI 4.0 Wed Feb  7 23:10:16 PST 1990  Type ? for help.
"try": 2 messages 2 new
>N  1 here                     to there..   12/139
 N  2 me                           to you    3/31
&
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This is a mail bug, not an xrn problem.
A kludge would be to replace all "From"s
which occur as the first word in a line
with "from"s.

Happy new year,


Narayan Sriranga Raja.