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Re: fix pop snarfing on Windows Rmail


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: fix pop snarfing on Windows Rmail
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:31:45 +0300

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:38:40 +0100
> From: address@hidden (John Paul Wallington)
> 
> Looks like this patch is needed:
> 
> 2008-08-20  John Paul Wallington  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * mail/rmail.el (rmail-insert-inbox-text): Ensure that the
>       filename of `tofile' doesn't contain any colons on Windows
>       and Cygwin systems.
> 
> Index: rmail.el
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/mail/rmail.el,v
> retrieving revision 1.454
> diff -u -r1.454 rmail.el
> --- rmail.el  6 May 2008 07:22:26 -0000       1.454
> +++ rmail.el  20 Aug 2008 22:22:51 -0000
> @@ -1804,8 +1804,8 @@
>                   (concat ".newmail-"
>                           (file-name-nondirectory
>                            (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt cygwin))
> -                              ;; cannot have "po:" in file name
> -                              (substring file 3)
> +                              ;; cannot have colons in file name
> +                              (replace-regexp-in-string ":" "-" file)
>                              file)))
>                   ;; Use the directory of this rmail file
>                   ;; because it's a nuisance to use the homedir
> 
> I'll install it in a few days unless someone objects.

I agree with the change, but please also add ms-dos to the list of
systems that need this.

Thanks.




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