From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Lillibridge Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: documentation of Rmail 23 mailbox format? Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:12:04 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: mark.lillibridge@hp.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320545552 29082 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2011 02:12:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 02:12:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 03:12:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMsDj-0004Wx-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMsDi-0000hU-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46039) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMsDf-0000hL-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMsDe-0008N0-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:53976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMsDd-0008Mh-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailhub-pa1.hpl.hp.com (mailhub-pa1.hpl.hp.com [15.25.115.25]) by madara.hpl.hp.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/HPL-PA Relay) with ESMTP id pA62C6dq029562 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:12:07 -0700 Original-Received: from ts-rhel5 (ts-rhel5.hpl.hp.com [15.25.118.27]) by mailhub-pa1.hpl.hp.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/HPL-PA Hub) with ESMTP id pA62C4R7023131; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:12:04 -0700 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 15.0.152.124 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 192.6.19.124 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145889 Archived-At: I've found at least one bug (get messages destroys all white space at the end of the last message already in the mailbox) in Rmail 23 that requires me to understand the correct Rmail 23 mailbox format in order to fix the bug. Is there any documentation of this? Unless told otherwise, I'm going to assume that Rmail 23 is supposed be using the mboxo/mboxrd mailbox format (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html). In particular, this means that: Each message is preceded by a From_ line and followed by a blank line. A From_ line is a line that begins with the five characters 'F', 'r', 'o', 'm', and ' '. Rmail 23 does not comply correctly with this. For example, it fails to add a blank line after the last message. - Mark