Subject: bug#2019: 23.0.60; Replacing BABYL with mbox format does not work on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:34:16 +0200

Typing "C-u M-x rmail RET FOO RET" where FOO is an Rmail file in BABYL
format signals an error, after it finishes writing the converted
messages to a temporary file:

  rmail-error-bad-format: Message 1 is not a valid RFC2822 message

I'm guessing this is because the converted file has DOS CR-LF EOLs,
and Emacs reads it with no-conversion, and then looks for some
telltale string that ends with a newline, but does not include a ^M
character.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
d:/gnu/emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-01-24 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1255
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-u M-x r m a i l <return> ~ / d a <tab> B A B <tab> 
<return> y C-x 1 <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> 
<prior> <prior> p n <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> 
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> 
C-x b * M e s s <tab> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> C-x b <return> <C-home> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <C-home> M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Loading vc-cvs...done
Wrote c:/DOCUME~1/Zaretzky/LOCALS~1/Temp/rmail1980zUw
Writing messages to c:/DOCUME~1/Zaretzky/LOCALS~1/Temp/rmail19807ap...done
Replacing BABYL format with mbox format...
Counting messages...done
Replacing BABYL format with mbox format...done
rmail-error-bad-format: Message 1 is not a valid RFC2822 message
No previous nondeleted message
No following nondeleted message
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