From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2251: 23.0.90; Summary by label in RMAIL Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4681-Thu12Feb2009061206+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> <0lmxdgf11p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488267073 32009 195.159.176.226 (28 Feb 2017 07:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:31:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) To: 2251-done@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 28 08:31:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFV-0007Ue-AE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:31:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFb-0006FL-87 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:31:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52039) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFV-0006F7-Kd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFU-00073R-BW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:31:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFU-00073M-09 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:31:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFT-0001Hz-Po for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:31:03 -0500 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:31:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 2251 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 2251@debbugs.gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org, jpff@codemist.co.uk Original-Received: via spool by 2251-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D2251.14882670554936 (code D ref 2251); Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:31:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2251-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Feb 2017 07:30:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58997 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFL-0001HY-Kr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:61000) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFJ-0001HK-LD for 2251-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFD-000708-HU for 2251-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFD-000704-Dw for 2251-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cicFC-0005a2-H3; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:46 -0500 X-Spook: National security assassinate nuclear Albania Blizzard X-Ran: U#4a]oT9g8w-*lIoKL(29%%AF|kDcsy}6.-O\'.$*uE;Fmn}/*:RS:h?/K+t;@Yw\,}.5c X-Hue: brightmagenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <0lmxdgf11p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:41:06 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:129930 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > To summarize, the issue here is that a corrupted BABYL file > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2251#51 > > produced a corrupted mbox file, which RMAIL choked on. > > The right solution would seem to be to try and detect the > corrupted/unexpected BABYL file and either fix it when converting to > mbox, or if it cannot be fixed abort the conversion with some > informative error message so that the user can try to fix it by hand > before converting. Ie do some basic sanity-checking of the input BABYL > file, to see it has the expected format. 5 years on, it's time to close this as wontfix, since no-one has any interest in improving support for the by obsolete babyl format, especially in fringe cases like this.