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From: emacs-bug@rulnick.com
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 65071@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65071: 29.1; RMAIL changed on disk leads to rmail-error-bad-format
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:07:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sf8xicr7.fsf@rulnick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sf8xsqwf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:52:00 +0300)

I hope the receipe below is clearer. In Emacs 29.1, starting with no
~/RMAIL file and empty primary mail spool file (please note that '$'
indicates Bash prompt in Terminal independent of Emacs):

  $ mail me@foo ... # send a message to myself

  $ emacs -Q

  (in Emacs) M-x rmail RET # retrieves/reads message

  $ cat /dev/null > ~/RMAIL # clear RMAIL file

  $ mail me@foo ... # send another message to myself

  (in Emacs) g

    "File RMAIL changed on disk. Reread from disk? (yes or no) " yes RET

    "rmail-error-bad-format: Message is not a valid RFC 822 (or later)
    message"; Emacs mode changes from RMAIL to Fundamental

At this point the ~/RMAIL file on disk looks good (proper RFC 822 file),
but the ~/RMAIL file as visited in buffer looks bad, as can be seen
(e.g., upon immediate save) to be missing top "From " and other header
lines ("Return-Path:", "Received:", etc.). I have many years experience
with Emacs and RMAIL and this behavior is new as of 29.1 or another very
recent version of Emacs.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-05 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-04 18:18 bug#65071: 29.1; RMAIL changed on disk leads to rmail-error-bad-format emacs-bug
2023-08-05 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 10:31   ` emacs-bug
2023-08-05 10:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 18:07       ` emacs-bug [this message]
2023-08-06  6:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-12  6:52           ` Eli Zaretskii

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