From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: labels of RMAIL not inherited Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:48:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233118219 7434 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2009 04:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 05:51:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LS2Oh-0007tM-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:51:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS2NP-0007tF-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS2NL-0007su-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS2NH-0007sN-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44494 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS2NH-0007sI-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51440) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LS2NH-0008QY-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LS2Lg-0003tu-6c; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:48:24 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:00:58 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108321 Archived-At: > I just started to use the new rmail (i.e. pmail). When I > first do M-x rmail, the babyl format of RMAIL is converted > to mbox format automatically. But, it seems that labels are > lost. At least, they are not shown in RMAIL nor > RMAIL-summary buffers. unrmail needs to be fixed to transfer the labels. When I wrote it, there was no way to record labels in an mbox file so discarding them was inevitable. The simple fact that the buffer is automatically converted is worrisome. I think we should prompt the user before doing it. Maybe, but given that both the old and new versions of Rmail can convert the format automatically, I am not convinced the prompting is necessary. PS: What's the plan for people who use both Emacs-22 and Emacs-23 to access their rmail mail? Each version can convert the file, so it does work. Making it prompt each time will make that somewhat more annoying.