From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#65071: 29.1; RMAIL changed on disk leads to rmail-error-bad-format Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 09:36:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83fs4wr81u.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16133"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 65071@debbugs.gnu.org To: emacs-bug@rulnick.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 06 08:37:15 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXO6-0003yY-NY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 08:37:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNw-0002q2-4W; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNu-0002pX-59 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNt-0006HV-TI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNt-0005NT-Oh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:37:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 06:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 65071 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 65071-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B65071.169130379720628 (code B ref 65071); Sun, 06 Aug 2023 06:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 65071) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Aug 2023 06:36:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58586 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNV-0005Md-B0 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36956) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNT-0005MQ-EF for 65071@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:36:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNN-0006Dz-Ub; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:36:29 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=30IBCV04kf2NDWm1QNPqXAkTinr7LLGKzvt1GvUNTNE=; b=UlOGbrySkxZK 6nYA0y2XsShXoJyLPJpggLvmcwKSHzFYHFrF2g4RjAW/MklPzdwJYsq8ERTk9FlfYMD0hn01eQDHp cWwY+n6HB2toG2a2+u1iRkxk6JkB3OuD5QyujBeykfKxaYFq//KtOmsRbX65r1Bt9JavMGoZcW/f+ BrLWVzFEiKQGKNDQa8Xfwnm4ihuL0ZC9VOAmZv7YMCLGfDrOP/deHd8JozVoSJPRepSskvzmUuW1c yopplIAK5Aks3/Va4L7Obj8CN6MFz/shCDWBQfBsKLBEvZXx24AnjGdMChhMmI53ABbpcvA4XG7A7 qMa/74lCMuav7C5aVsTfqA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSXNM-0006UB-Pj; Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:36:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (emacs-bug@rulnick.com) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:266838 Archived-At: > From: emacs-bug@rulnick.com > Cc: 65071@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:07:40 -0400 > > I hope the receipe below is clearer. In Emacs 29.1, starting with no > ~/RMAIL file and empty primary mail spool file (please note that '$' > indicates Bash prompt in Terminal independent of Emacs): > > $ mail me@foo ... # send a message to myself > > $ emacs -Q > > (in Emacs) M-x rmail RET # retrieves/reads message > > $ cat /dev/null > ~/RMAIL # clear RMAIL file > > $ mail me@foo ... # send another message to myself > > (in Emacs) g > > "File RMAIL changed on disk. Reread from disk? (yes or no) " yes RET > > "rmail-error-bad-format: Message is not a valid RFC 822 (or later) > message"; Emacs mode changes from RMAIL to Fundamental > > At this point the ~/RMAIL file on disk looks good (proper RFC 822 file), > but the ~/RMAIL file as visited in buffer looks bad, as can be seen > (e.g., upon immediate save) to be missing top "From " and other header > lines ("Return-Path:", "Received:", etc.). I have many years experience > with Emacs and RMAIL and this behavior is new as of 29.1 or another very > recent version of Emacs. Thanks, this should be fixed now on the emacs-29 branch. The reason for the bug was a change in revert-buffer we made during Emacs 29 development.