Subject: bug#4593: 23.1; RMAIL bug regarding Message not valid RFC2822 message

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:01:39 -0400

"Lane A. Hemaspaandra" wrote:

> problem.  So if I do this:
>
> (each "read" means i ran rmail-input on the named file)
> read ~/junk
> q
> read ~/=shortCutToOldEmail/WESTFIELD
> (at this point it says: Replacing BABYL format with mbox format...done)
> q
> read ~/WESTFIELD
> q
> read ~/junk
> q
> read ~/=shortCutToOldEmail/WESTFIELD
>
> then bang, it says:
>     Message is not a valid RFC2822 message

If you don't mind making them public, can you tar up / zip those
messages and send them to [email-masked]? Or if that
is not acceptable, then just to me? Thanks.

> (variations on my sequence that course this seem not to cause the
> bug. i have no idea why; i'm sorry.)
[...]
> so that I have copies of all the files involved, in case that would 
> be helpful.