From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rmail, Babyl, mbox, emacs 23 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:49:06 -0700 Organization: None Message-ID: <51eijijfa5.fsf@xoc2.stanford.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272995145 26503 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:45:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:45:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:45:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9MBi-0007fU-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9MBh-0004BH-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:45:41 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xoc2.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1268894946 2349 171.64.109.31 (18 Mar 2010 06:49:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu X-Spook: 1 October password security al-Jihad U-235 Ortega ASG X-Ran: 1YtG,m/yEw4:.+6:aJhI[HRu#z\_$3_a?x}{ZFf%+}4RHR1I@XeywM[HPN%|fTcHACUF\. X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jvFW3170C+B0ocl+lwbgEBXvtD0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177494 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73000 Archived-At: Lewis Perin wrote: > My ISP just upgraded emacs to 23.1.1. I was alarmed when it couldn't > parse my 22-level Babyl rmail file, This sounds like a bug that should be reported, with as much detail as possible (starting from emacs -Q) to help it get fixed. Can you try the 23.1.94 pretest from http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ to see if it does any better? > but I soon learned that running M-x unrmail would fix that. I'm a bit confused, because internally Emacs uses unrmail to convert Babyl files to mbox when needed. So I don't see why it would work when you call it by hand, but not when Emacs calls it. > Now, though, I face the problem of what happens when I run M-x > rmail-input against an email archive (also Babyl) created under an > earlier version of emacs. 23.1.1's Rmail doesn't parse the archive any > better than it parsed the Babyl version of ~/RMAIL; it gives up with the > error message "Removing old name: no such file or directory, > /tmp/rmail17713j4x". Again, this is a bug. > When I run unrmail against an archive, that doesn't work either; it > blows up with "Symbol's value as variable is void: rmail-highlight-face". This reveals another bug (sigh; now fixed), but if you start emacs as `emacs -Q' it should not affect you.