labels of RMAIL not inherited

labels of RMAIL not inherited

[Stefan Monnier]

> I just started to use the new rmail (i.e. pmail).  When I
> first do M-x rmail, the babyl format of RMAIL is converted
> to mbox format automatically.  But, it seems that labels are
> lost.  At least, they are not shown in RMAIL nor
> RMAIL-summary buffers.

The simple fact that the buffer is automatically converted
is worrisome.  I think we should prompt the user before doing it.


        Stefan


PS: What's the plan for people who use both Emacs-22 and Emacs-23 to
access their rmail mail?

Re: labels of RMAIL not inherited

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I just started to use the new rmail (i.e. pmail).  When I
>> first do M-x rmail, the babyl format of RMAIL is converted
>> to mbox format automatically.  But, it seems that labels are
>> lost.  At least, they are not shown in RMAIL nor
>> RMAIL-summary buffers.

I checked in a fix for this.

> The simple fact that the buffer is automatically converted is
> worrisome.  I think we should prompt the user before doing it.

Yes.

Re: labels of RMAIL not inherited

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The simple fact that the buffer is automatically converted is
> worrisome.  I think we should prompt the user before doing it.

I just added a prompt for this.

Re: labels of RMAIL not inherited

[Richard M Stallman]

    > I just started to use the new rmail (i.e. pmail).  When I
    > first do M-x rmail, the babyl format of RMAIL is converted
    > to mbox format automatically.  But, it seems that labels are
    > lost.  At least, they are not shown in RMAIL nor
    > RMAIL-summary buffers.

unrmail needs to be fixed to transfer the labels.
When I wrote it, there was no way to record labels in an mbox file
so discarding them was inevitable.

    The simple fact that the buffer is automatically converted
    is worrisome.  I think we should prompt the user before doing it.

Maybe, but given that both the old and new versions of Rmail can
convert the format automatically, I am not convinced the prompting
is necessary.

    PS: What's the plan for people who use both Emacs-22 and Emacs-23 to
    access their rmail mail?

Each version can convert the file, so it does work.

Making it prompt each time will make that somewhat more annoying.

Re: labels of RMAIL not inherited

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <E1LS2Lg-0003tu-6c@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I just started to use the new rmail (i.e. pmail).  When I
> first do M-x rmail, the babyl format of RMAIL is converted
> to mbox format automatically.  But, it seems that labels are
> lost.  At least, they are not shown in RMAIL nor
> RMAIL-summary buffers.

> unrmail needs to be fixed to transfer the labels.
> When I wrote it, there was no way to record labels in an mbox file
> so discarding them was inevitable.

I found that the labels are not lost but preserved as these
headers:

X-BABYL-V6-ATTRIBUTES:
X-BABYL-V6-KEYWORDS:

and newly added ones are recorded as these headers:

X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES:
X-RMAIL-KEYWORDS:

Just recently, Chong fixed it:

	* mail/unrmail.el (unrmail): Record labels in X-RMAIL-* fields,
	which are recognized by the new Rmail, instead of X-BABYL-V6-*.

So, it seems that the already converted RMAIL file can be
fixed just by replacing X-BABYL-V6 to X-RMAIL.

But the problem of keywords not shown in RMAIL-summary is
not yet fixed.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org