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23.0.90; Failed to convert from Babyl to mbox

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.90; Failed to convert from Babyl to mbox
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:02:56 +0000

Encouraged by some experiments I thought I would make the major change.
However it failed.

This is run with -q and loaded one of my smaller mail files in Babyl
format. The file is called ~/MAIL/c-m-r It starts well, creates the
temporary file and starts to write to it, until I get the message that
it failed to find ",,"

This is repeatable and also happens on other mail files.  I will try
again with the debugger enabled.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed ",,")
  search-forward(",,")
  unrmail("/tmp/rmail126484kV" "/tmp/rmail12648Fvb")
  rmail-convert-babyl-to-mbox()
  rmail-convert-file-maybe()
  rmail-mode()
  set-auto-mode-0(rmail-mode nil)
  byte-code("=3fff9f=3fffc5=3fff89=3fff83/
  set-auto-mode()
  normal-mode(t)
  after-find-file(nil t)
  find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer c-m-r> "~/MAIL/c-m-r" nil nil "~/MAIL/c-m-r" (49207 2050))
  find-file-noselect("~/MAIL/c-m-r" nil nil t)
  find-file("~/MAIL/c-m-r" t)
  call-interactively(find-file nil nil)


In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2009-02-02 on cardew
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
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: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

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:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x C-f M A I L 
/ c - m <tab> <return> y M-x r e p o <tab> r t <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Babyl mail file detected.  Rmail now uses mbox format for mail files.
Convert Babyl mail file to mbox format? (y or n) 
Wrote /tmp/rmail12648CMs
Writing messages to /tmp/rmail12648eQJ...
File mode specification error: (search-failed ",,")
Making completion list...

Message #10 received at 2156 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
To: 2156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Another oddity
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:32:04 +0000

I looked at the detritus of the translation from babyl to mbox and I
notice that the date/time in teh From line inserted is the time of
translation and not the time of the receipt of the message

eg

From ajr <at> eng.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb  2 10:01:50 2009
X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES: --------
X-RMAIL-KEYWORDS:  music,c-m-r
Received: from stork2.maths.bath.ac.uk by omphalos.maths.Bath.AC.UK id aa08314;
          5 Mar 97 9:38 GMT
Received: from goggins.bath.ac.uk by stork.maths.Bath.AC.UK id aa16606;
          5 Mar 97 9:38 GMT
Received: from duct.mail.pipex.net by goggins.bath.ac.uk with SMTP (PP);
          Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:38:37 +0000
Received: from lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk by duct.mail.pipex.net with SMTP (PP);
          Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:38:26 +0000
Received: by lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/MDTG-V1.1.8 <at> lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk)
id JAA07528;
          Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:38:22 GMT
Return-Path: <news <at> lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
To: comp-music-research <at> news.pipex.net
Path: news
From: Tony Robinson <ajr <at> eng.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.music.research
Subject: Re: Algorithms for Pink and Brown noise?
Date: 05 Mar 1997 09:37:59 +0000
.....

Message #17 received at 2156 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>, 2156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2156: 23.0.90; Failed to convert from Babyl to mbox
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:08:38 +0200

> From: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:02:56 +0000
> Cc: 
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed ",,")
>   search-forward(",,")
>   unrmail("/tmp/rmail126484kV" "/tmp/rmail12648Fvb")
>   rmail-convert-babyl-to-mbox()
>   rmail-convert-file-maybe()
>   rmail-mode()

Any chance you could post the shortest Babyl file that fails like
that?  Or find out why does it fail to find the ",," signature in your
Babyl files and explain that to us?  The conversion worked for me on
files I have here, so this is something peculiar to the files you
have.

Message #22 received at 2156 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>, 2156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2156: Another oddity
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:18:12 +0200

> From: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:32:04 +0000
> Cc: 
> 
> I looked at the detritus of the translation from babyl to mbox and I
> notice that the date/time in teh From line inserted is the time of
> translation and not the time of the receipt of the message

Only in some messages, right?  I saw that, too, and have this bug on
my todo.  Thanks for submitting this to the tracker, though.

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