From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harel@barzilai.org (hbmath) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: help: RMAIL file format ?? Date: 13 Feb 2003 19:21:06 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045193062 16177 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 03:24:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jWSa-0004Cd-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:24:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jWTh-0003I7-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:25:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.118.48.220 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1045192867 3956 127.0.0.1 (14 Feb 2003 03:21:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2003 03:21:07 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110166 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6669 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6669 While usually very reliable, my unix shell provider dreamhost.com just had some major attack againt it and all the mail files are jumbled up. No longer can I access "Mail" from the shell; I get Mail: /home/barzilai/Maildir/: Is a directory Well, "pine" works, but I've used emacs since 1988 and don't care for pine at all..so I try using rmail-get-new-mail with control-u so I can specify file format... I see Maildir/ has a subdirectory Maildir/new/ but every mail message there is separate; files have names like -rw------- 1 barzilai pg6640 3480 Jan 3 2001 1025163484.000001.mbo\ x:2,S I try "cat * >> allmail" and then to run RMAIL on "allmail" but no go; likewise for trying to run RMAIL on an individual file like the above; emacs says it can't convert them into babyl format...while support staff deals with this attack (the third major one in 4.5 years I'm with them) it may take a while before my query gets to an emacs savvy person of their staff so since I depend (don't we all?)on daily, frequent access to email, I'd appreciate any ideas; please cc to hare [at-sign] barzilai [dot] org Thanks! Harel