From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "జిందం వాఐి" <jindam.vani@disroot.org>
Cc: 66293@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66293: 28.2; rmail_ Invalid mbox file
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:37:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a5t18tzi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4c990b499b8f9e043e43204d6f69185@disroot.org> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:40:10 +0530
> From: జిందం వాఐి via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> On 2023-10-01 19:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > With the attached mbox file I cannot reproduce the problem. I did:
> >
> > emacs -Q
> > C-u M-x rmail RET RMAIN RET
>
> above command, no mail
> * however, C-u M-x rmail RET RMAIL RET
> displays email
>
> > and was presented with the last email message in the mbox file, with
> > no errors.
> >
> > So I wonder what went wrong in your case. Maybe the problem is in the
> > version of movemail you are using? Can you try repeating the steps I
> > did above, instead of going through Tools->Read mail ?
>
> it seems i need to use commands...
Yes, if movemail cannot retrieve your mail, you must use "M-x rmail"
to read mail from a disk file.
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2023-10-01 12:09 bug#66293: 28.2; rmail_ Invalid mbox file జిందం వాఐి via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-01 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-01 18:10 ` జిందం వాఐి via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-02 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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