From: "జిందం వాఐి via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 66293@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66293: 28.2; rmail_ Invalid mbox file
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:40:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4c990b499b8f9e043e43204d6f69185@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83msx28n7o.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2023-10-01 19:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:39:24 +0530
>> From: జిందం వాఐి via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> * os: android 9
>> * debian 12 on proot-distro [ 1 ]
>> * apt show emacs-lucid_ Version: 1:28.2+1-15
>> * apt show mailutils_ Version: 1:3.15-4
>> * didnt install anything extra or configured
>> * first, i asked on help-emacs-gnu [ 2 ]
>>
>> * steps
>> * open emacs
>> * tools -> read mail
>>
>> * error
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid mbox file")
>> error("Invalid mbox file")
>> rmail-convert-file-maybe()
>> rmail()
>> funcall-interactively(rmail)
>> command-execute(rmail record)
>> execute-extended-command(nil "rmail" "rmail")
>> funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "rmail" "rmail")
>> command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>>
>> * added attachment_ rmail
>
> 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...
--
regards,
జిందం వాఐి [ jindam, vani ]
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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 [this message]
2023-10-02 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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