Package: emacs;
Reported by: jpff <jpff <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:30:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):
From: jpff <jpff <at> cs.bath.ac.uk> To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org Subject: 23.0.90; rmail not reading email Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:24:31 +0000
I have just tried to read new mail (g) in rmail mode
It appeared to lose the mail -- the external mailbox was cleared but
the mail did not appear. I later found it appended to the last message
but in a format that is neither one nor the other. It starts as
below....
0, unseen,,
Return-Path: <cyrus <at> air>
Received: from murder ([unix socket])
by air (Cyrus v2.3.8) with LMTPA;
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:27:50 +0000
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3
Envelope-to: jpff <at> cs.bath.ac.uk
Delivery-date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:27:50 +0000
Received: from authenticated user by air.cs.bath.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <jhd <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>)
id 1LUez0-0002dZ-4X; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:27:50 +0000
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:27:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: Professor James Davenport <jhd <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>
To: J P Fitch <jpff <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>, J A Padget <jap <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>,
Russell Bradford <rjb <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>
cc: James Davenport <jhd <at> cs.bath.ac.uk>
Subject: Blast from the past
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0902041026480.7689 <at> ralph.cs.bath.ac.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I found myself reading, or at leats looking for,
@Article{ McArthuretal1988,
title = "{Skill-oriented task sequencing in an intelligent tutor for
basic algebra}",
author = {McArthur,D. Stasz,C. Hotta,J. and Peter,O. and Burdorf,C.},
journal = {Instructional Science},
volume = {17},
year = {1988},
pages = {281-307},
annote = {DOI 10.1007/BF00056218},
keywords = {EDUC}
}
0, unseen,,
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Received: from murder ([unix socket])
by air (Cyrus v2.3.8) with LMTPA;
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:44:59 +0000
etc etc ...........................................
unrmail will not touch it as there are no *** EOOH *** lines. Looks
liek I need to do a lot of hand editing.
This was working on my other machine. Only significant different I
can think of it that teh mail is from po:jpff rather than a file
In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2009-02-04 on xenakis
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
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:
auto-image-file-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
C-x C-f R M A <tab> <return> M-x r m a i l - m o d
e <return> u k r b l <tab> - <tab> l i s t e d <return>
C-x k <return> y e s <return> C-x C-f R M A <tab> <return>
<escape> > <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape> v <escape>
v C-r m o n e y <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
C-a <escape> SPC <escape> > C-x C-x M-x w r SPC r <return>
l o s t _ m a i l _ f e b <return> C-w C-x C-s C-x
k <return> C-x C-f l o s <tab> <return> M-x u n r <tab>
<tab> <return> l o s t + m <tab> <backspace> <backspace>
_ <tab> <return> x x . f e b <return> C-x 2 C-x C-f
M A I L / e x <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> c - <tab> _ <tab> <return> n <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo>
<down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x k <return> C-x o C-x C-s M-x u n r m
<tab> <return> l o s t <tab> <return> x . <backspace>
x . f e b <return> C-g M-m C-x k <return> M-x r e p
o <tab> r t <tab> <return>
Recent messages:
File mode specification error: (error "Aborted")
Mark set
Saving file /bigdisk/jpff/lost_mail_feb...
Wrote /bigdisk/jpff/lost_mail_feb
Writing messages to /bigdisk/jpff/xx.feb...
unrmail: Search failed: "^[*][*][*] EOOH [*][*][*]
"
Quit
Parsing /bigdisk/jpff/.mailrc... done
Making completion list...
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