From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recognize mbox files?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:16:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234426596.076271.2586.nullmailer@beryx.hq.kred> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:15:56 -0500
>> >> Otherwise, Rmail will have to be considered risky for use by mail
>> >> admins.
>> > Heh, what it does nowadays is nothing compared with what it did before
>> > the mbox merge: it would convert the file to Babyl! How's that for
>> > ``risky''?
>>
>> But *when* did it do it? Would it do it, just by C-x C-f <somemboxfile> RET?
> The conversion happened when you turned on rmail-mode. If C-x C-f did
> that automatically, the conversion happened automatically just by
> typing C-x C-f.
But could C-x C-f do that "by accident"? Anyway, even if it could, we
want to be more careful now. I think the idea of checking the presence
of RMAIL tags before allowing to modify the buffer is a good plan.
There seems to be confusion about how rmail work(s/ed).
A RMAIL/BABYL file contains a header that specifies the mode of the
file, so when you open such files (C-x C-f), you will get the file in
rmail-mode.
If you opened a random mbox file, no conversion occurs.
If you type M-x rmail, rmail will read the mail spool, and save the
content to ~/RMAIL, converting the result to BABYL.
When a buffer was converted to BABYL, the file was never saved
automatically. This was, I found anyway, useful for looking at mbox
files where you could then just use rmail to navigate th file,
disgarding the conversion later.
rmail would _never_ convert a file to BABYL unless the user explicitly
commanded emacs to do so, by invoking M-x rmail, or C-u M-x rmail.
Infact, a solution to the whole problem is simple. Upon adding
headers, add the following header to the first message:
X-RMAIL-MODE: -*- rmail -*-
The file will then be handled by Emacs correctly, when the user does a
C-x C-f.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-12 8:16 Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2009-02-13 6:33 ` Recognize mbox files? Richard M Stallman
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2009-02-18 16:57 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 23:55 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-17 23:55 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-17 15:27 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-18 3:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-18 3:39 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-18 4:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-18 12:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-18 12:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-17 13:10 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 14:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-18 12:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-16 16:12 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-17 12:13 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-14 21:52 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-14 21:25 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-14 22:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-16 15:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-14 21:25 Xavier Maillard
2009-02-13 8:25 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-12 7:45 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-10 7:36 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-09 18:38 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-10 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-10 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 20:02 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-11 0:34 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-02-11 20:58 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-11 4:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-11 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-12 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-12 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-12 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-12 2:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-02-11 20:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-09 5:31 Richard M Stallman
2009-02-09 18:17 ` Chong Yidong
2009-02-09 19:09 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-02-09 21:26 ` Reiner Steib
2009-02-09 22:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-09 22:35 ` Reiner Steib
2009-02-10 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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