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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: RMAIL file ---> UNIX mail file
Message-ID: <421@talos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 13:40:25 GMT
References: <156@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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In article <156@ai.cs.utexas.edu> yvo@cs.utexas.edu (Yvonne van Olphen) writes:
 >I accidentally started up RMAIL while in emacs, and it sucked up all
 >my (30+) messages that were in my spool file.  I don't know RMAIL, and
 >I want my messages back in a UNIX mail file without having to C-o
 >*every single* message individually.  Is there some way I can
 >completely convert the RMAIL file back into a UNIX mail file
 >painlessly??  HELP!

I've heard this complaint before.  I think `rmail' should be a
disabled command.  Even though it's not bound to a key by default, I
still don't like the idea of an editor command gobbling up my mailbox,
converting it to another format, and deleting the original without a
word of warning.

Back in Novemeber Ed Wilkinson (E.Wilkinson@massey.ac.nz) posted a
program called `b2m' which converts BABYL format files into UNIX
mail format.