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From: jeff1@garfield.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: rmail loses invalid mail files
Message-ID: <89Apr14.144555nst.18486@garfield.mun.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 89 18:15:44 GMT
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Version: emacs 18.53 (RISC/os on MIPS 120 and probably others)

	If rmail doesn't recognize any messages in a file, it 
ends up with a file with only a babyl header.  If the file happened to
be the system mailbox, it is now gone, without even an hint except
"No new mail has arrived."  Even the ".newmail" file is gone.  This was 
found out the hard way, when we had a sendmail problem which didn't put 
"From " at the start of the mailbox.
	If rmail doesnt recognize the format of the file, it should probably
leave it be and just issue a warning.