From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Convert text file to mbox file?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:24:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tucej3nd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee3ivs6f.fsf@yandex.com> (m43cap@yandex.com)
> From: "Dr. C. Baxter" <m43cap@yandex.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:53:28 +0000
>
> In my rmail configuration, I have sent the variable
> 'mail-archive-file-name' to a local file 'sent'. All appeared to go well
> for several months, but when I now try to read 'sent' via "M-x rmail-input"
> I'm told that 'sent' is an Invalid mbox file. I think the problem may
> have arisen when I edited and saved 'sent' as if it were an ordinary
> text file. Is there anyway in which I can covert 'sent' back to an mbox
> file?
My suggestion is to establish what exactly causes Rmail to signal this
error. Set debug-on-error non-nil, and examine the backtrace; then
step with Edebug if needed.
Once you understand what exactly causes the error, I'm quite sure
repairing your archive will be easy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-03 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-03 17:53 Convert text file to mbox file? Dr. C. Baxter
2022-03-03 18:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-03 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-04 7:27 ` Colin Baxter
2022-04-05 21:41 ` TRS-80
2022-03-04 7:49 ` Jean Louis
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