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bug#9841: 23.3; rmail-edit-current-message adds extra '>'s to Froms...
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Mark Lillibridge |
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bug#9841: 23.3; rmail-edit-current-message adds extra '>'s to Froms... |
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Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:05:57 -0700 |
Start with a Rmail message (this one will do) not containing MIME that
contains lines like the following:
>From level 1
>>From level 2
>>>From level 3
Hit 'e' to edit the message. Notice that nothing changes. Now hit ^c^c
or ^c^] to stop editing (the later is supposed to abort, leaving the
message unchanged). Notice that your message now has one more > in
front of each of the from lines:
>>From level 1
>>>From level 2
>>>>From level 3
You can repeat this as many times as you like, adding more and more >'s.
Towards a patch, I notice that rmail-cease-edit has the following code:
rmailedit.el:135:
;; Disguise any "From " lines so they don't start a new message.
(goto-char (point-min))
(or rmail-old-pruned (forward-line 1))
(while (re-search-forward "^>*From " nil t)
(beginning-of-line)
(insert ">")
(forward-line))
There is no corresponding code in the rmail-edit-current-message or the
viewing code that I can find.
This probably needs more thought, but I think the decode code should
remove one >, and the incorporate new messages and done editting code
should add one > (as above). Note this is related to bug #6574: Rmail
23 uses a broken mailbox format (mboxo) instead of a sane one like
mboxrd.
I note that fetchmail to mbox loses information because it only adds
a > to From's without one already. This is arguably not Rmail's fault,
however.
- Mark
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