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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail invalid mbox file
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 17:51:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0od2pyy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtt96yuh.fsf@openbsd1.jimerickson.info> (message from Jim Erickson on Wed, 05 May 2021 09:26:30 -0500)

> From: Jim Erickson <jimerickso@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 09:26:30 -0500
> 
> thank you it is good to at least know what the problem is. is this a new
> google policy to write things this way?

I don't know, I never used this method of getting email in mbox
format.

> my "From:" line comes after a bunch of other headers.

No, "From:" (with the colon) is just an email header.  That's not the
line that needs to begin each emacs.  You need a line that says "From"
without the colon.  It sounds like such a line is completely absent
from your file, in which case Rmail will not be able to process it,
because that's how it knows that a new email message begins.

> how does one go about reordering lines in the mbox with emacs?
> otherwise i guess i will have to switch to gnus. gnus seems to
> handle the messages fine.

I think in your case using Gnus is indeed the right idea.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-05 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-05 14:26 rmail invalid mbox file Jim Erickson
2021-05-05 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-05 15:51 ` tomas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-05-06 16:31 Jim Erickson
2021-05-05 11:37 Jim Erickson
2021-05-05 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-04 23:31 Jim Erickson
2021-05-05  2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii

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