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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recognize mbox files?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:38:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LWb1U-0005VB-Mw@beryx.hq.kred> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:17:30 -0500

   > Is it reliable enough to recognize mbox files that we could visit
   > them automatically in Rmail mode?

   I don't think so.  Mbox files are lines that begin with "From ",
   separated by arbitrary data.  There's not enough information to
   autodetect them.

What about assuming that rmail files always start witj "RMAIL" or
"XMAIL" (and ignore case-sensitivity)? Then RMAIL.foo would be a RMAIL
file, and xmail.123 would also be a rmail file.

That would work for most normal cases.  That way if you open
/com/mail/ams or some other mail spool file, RMAIL will not do
anything funny with it.




             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09 18:38 Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2009-02-10  1:34 ` Recognize mbox files? 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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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  8:16 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-13  6:33 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-12  7:45 Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-02-10  7:36 Alfred M. Szmidt
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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