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23.3; unrmail fails to produce any output for a empty BABYL folder

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From: Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.3; unrmail fails to produce any output for a empty BABYL folder
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:31:18 -0800

ts-rhel5 [128]% ls
RMAIL

ts-rhel5 [129]% cat RMAIL 
BABYL OPTIONS: -*- rmail -*-
Version: 5
Labels:
Note:   This is the header of an rmail file.
Note:   If you are seeing it in rmail,
Note:    it means the file has no messages in it.
                                                            
ts-rhel5 [131]% ~/bin/emacs-23.3-install/bin/emacs -batch -f batch-unrmail RMAIL 
Writing messages to /home/mdl/Tmp/now/RMAIL.mail...
Writing messages to /home/mdl/Tmp/now/RMAIL.mail...done
Done

ts-rhel5 [132]% ls
RMAIL


    There should be a RMAIL.mail file of 0 bytes above as promised by
the output messages.  This file is correctly created by the version of
unrmail in Emacs 22 and for non-empty folders by Emacs 23 unrmail.

- Mark

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