From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2000: 23.0.60; Rmail mode totally broken Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:25:26 -0500 Message-ID: <87zlhhg6zd.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87sknanjl7.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Chong Yidong , 2000@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232739883 29406 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 19:44:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:44:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2000@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: jpff Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 20:45:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQRyO-0008B8-GT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:45:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRx6-0006gD-Rc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:44:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRwE-0005qp-Gb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRwB-0005nY-JC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33187 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRwB-0005nN-CN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:57810) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQRwA-0007bP-L6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0NJhSpd020261; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:43:28 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0NJZ3Bt017916; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:35:03 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Chong Yidong Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 2000 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2000-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B2000.123273870415582 (code B ref 2000); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2000) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 23 Jan 2009 19:25:04 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu (CYD.MIT.EDU [18.115.2.24]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0NJP0tA015482 for <2000@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:25:01 -0800 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D589657E1FC; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:25:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (root@codemist.co.uk's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:38 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:24436 Archived-At: root writes: > I tried your fixed rmail and it does not crash. However it does not > provide the label functionality either -- no labels on bottom line, > and I suspect that that means that setting labels etc is not complete. > > I have lots of mail-handling code that uses labels for organisation, > spam filters and so forth. Will this rmail-mbox be truly backward > compatableor do I have to recode it all? Seems like a shame to me to > lose a format that I have used for so many years. I just fixed a couple of bugs in the label handling. I do see labels displayed on the mode-line, and the functionality explained in the section on Labels in the manual now seems to work fine. What is the nature of this mail-handling code of yours? Do they make use of internal Rmail functions, and, if so, what functions are these?