rmail can't delete message 10000 and later

rmail can't delete message 10000 and later

[Ulrich Windl]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Postmaster is a poor guy with 11000 messages. Unfortunately RMail can delete up to 
message 9999, but it cannot delete message 10000 and larger. Hitting 'd' just has 
no effect (in summary).

RMAIL-summary looks like this:
9996D 23-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcript$
9997D 23-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [289] Warning: could not send message f$
9998D 23-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [290] Warning: could not send message f$
9999D 23-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [404] Warning: could not send message f$
1000   24-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcrip$
1000-  24-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcrip$
1000-  24-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcrip$
1000-  24-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcrip$
1000-  24-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcrip$
1000-  24-Jul  <MAILER-DAEMON@kgate1.nga [143] Postmaster notify: see transcrip$

Recent input:
d d d d d d d d d d d ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O
B ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A d d d d d d d d d
d d d d ESC [ 2 1 ~ C-g ESC x m e n TAB TAB m TAB RET
ESC x ESC p RET ESC x u n b TAB C-g d d d d d d d d
d d d d d ESC x r e p o TAB r t TAB RET

Recent messages:
Loading rmailsum...done
Computing summary lines...done
Type C-x 4 b RET to restore the other window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
Loading sendmail...done
keyboard-quit: Quit
list: Quit
Making completion list...
call-interactively: Quit
Making completion list...
Loading emacsbug...done

Re: rmail can't delete message 10000 and later

[Richard Stallman]

Does this patch fix it?

*** rmailsum.el	25 Jul 2007 11:49:20 -0400	1.144.2.2
--- rmailsum.el	31 Jul 2007 14:23:05 -0400	
***************
*** 288,296 ****
  		    (if (zerop (% rmail-new-summary-line-count 10))
  			(message "Computing summary lines...%d"
  				 rmail-new-summary-line-count))
! 		    (rmail-make-summary-line-1 msg)))))
      ;; Fix up the part of the summary that says "deleted" or "unseen".
!     (aset line 5
  	  (if (rmail-message-deleted-p msg) ?\D
  	    (if (= ?0 (char-after (+ 3 (rmail-msgbeg msg))))
  		?\- ?\ )))
--- 288,298 ----
  		    (if (zerop (% rmail-new-summary-line-count 10))
  			(message "Computing summary lines...%d"
  				 rmail-new-summary-line-count))
! 		    (rmail-make-summary-line-1 msg))))
! 	delpos)
      ;; Fix up the part of the summary that says "deleted" or "unseen".
!     (string-match "[0-9]+" line)
!     (aset line (match-end 0)
  	  (if (rmail-message-deleted-p msg) ?\D
  	    (if (= ?0 (char-after (+ 3 (rmail-msgbeg msg))))
  		?\- ?\ )))

Re: rmail can't delete message 10000 and later

[Ulrich Windl]

Richard,

actually the work-around was to quit rmail after having marked 9999 messages for 
deletion, and then restart it to mark the rest of the messages. To answer your 
question, I'll have to wait until there are another 10000 messages.

Regards,
Ulrich

On 31 Jul 2007 at 16:22, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Does this patch fix it?
> 
> *** rmailsum.el	25 Jul 2007 11:49:20 -0400	1.144.2.2
> --- rmailsum.el	31 Jul 2007 14:23:05 -0400	
> ***************
> *** 288,296 ****
>   		    (if (zerop (% rmail-new-summary-line-count 10))
>   			(message "Computing summary lines...%d"
>   				 rmail-new-summary-line-count))
> ! 		    (rmail-make-summary-line-1 msg)))))
>       ;; Fix up the part of the summary that says "deleted" or "unseen".
> !     (aset line 5
>   	  (if (rmail-message-deleted-p msg) ?\D
>   	    (if (= ?0 (char-after (+ 3 (rmail-msgbeg msg))))
>   		?\- ?\ )))
> --- 288,298 ----
>   		    (if (zerop (% rmail-new-summary-line-count 10))
>   			(message "Computing summary lines...%d"
>   				 rmail-new-summary-line-count))
> ! 		    (rmail-make-summary-line-1 msg))))
> ! 	delpos)
>       ;; Fix up the part of the summary that says "deleted" or "unseen".
> !     (string-match "[0-9]+" line)
> !     (aset line (match-end 0)
>   	  (if (rmail-message-deleted-p msg) ?\D
>   	    (if (= ?0 (char-after (+ 3 (rmail-msgbeg msg))))
>   		?\- ?\ )))