Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bpa!manta!abel!jma
From: jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: RMAIL seems to be filing incorrectly (is this me or emacs?)
Summary: problem identified, solution still sought
Message-ID: <410@abel.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 11:53:01 GMT
References: <409@abel.UUCP>
Reply-To: jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson)
Organization: UPenn Mathematics, Philadelphia (Havertown)
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In article <409@abel.UUCP> jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes:
> 
> 	It has happened to me a couple times that when I refile an
> article in RMAIL using rmail-output-to-rmail-file (o), the message gets
> appended to the last message in the file (rather than being appended
> as another message in the file).  This means I get messages with
> 
> [end of prev. message]
> ^_
> From: ...
> 
> in them, as well as "*** EOOH ***", and so forth.
> 

	I now think I know what causes the problem.  Imagine the
following:

	I have an emacs format mail file, ~/Mail/foo, created with
RMAIL.  Say it has three messages in it.  Now I send a message with an
Fcc: ~/Mail/foo.  That message gets appended to foo in UNIX format
(or, at least, not emacs format).  If I now read in foo, it gets
converted, since emacs looks at the last message in the file.  But if
I append an emacs format message (with rmail-output-to-rmail-file),
the last file will be the correct format, so emacs won't convert it.
I think this is at least roughly what is happenning, at least at the
level of what *I'm* doing.

	I still don't know any good fix for it, though.  Thoughts from
the net?


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