rmail glues mails, ctnd

[Wlodek Drabent]

I have an additional substantial comment to my former bug report (enclosed).

It seems that the problem is due to
  metamail-interpret-body.
Namely it is able to produce a message without a newline at the end.

sincerely
--Wlodek D.

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X-Original-To: wlodr@semantix.localdomain
From: Wlodek Drabent <wdr@ida.liu.se>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: rmail glues mails
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:20:10 +0100 (CET)

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-03-28 on Cameron
configured using `configure '--with-gcc' '--with-pop' '--with-system-malloc' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' 
'--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' 
'--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib' 
'i586-suse-linux' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 
-fmessage-length=0 -pipe    -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=25000   
-DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000         -D_GNU_SOURCE ' 'LDFLAGS=-s' 
'build_alias=i586-suse-linux' 'host_alias=i586-suse-linux' 
'target_alias=i586-suse-linux''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  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
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

This is emacs-21.2-144 from SuSE linux 8.2.


Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I noticed that some mails are glued together in my babyl mail files.
This is because ^_^L does not appear at the beginning of a line.
I am including an example wrong line, followed by the beginning of the next
mail.  (The original control characters are replaced by visible ones, to avoid
problems).

gr III^_^L
1,,
X-Coding-System: iso-8859-2
Mail-from: From stefmal@poczta.onet.pl Tue Dec 16 20:41:28 2003
Received: from smtp1.poczta.onet.pl (smtp1.poczta.onet.pl [213.180.130.31])
        by portofix.ida.liu.se (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBGJfRs5007868
        for <wdr@ida.liu.se>; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:41:27 +0100 (MET)


The example is taken from a buffer in RMAIL mode (a single letter is
displayed, no 'widen' set).

Hand editing helps (pressing e and then inserting return, etc) - after
re-visiting the file both messages are seen separately.
The mail files were obtained by saving mails from file RMAIL using the
command o.
I do not have time to try reproducing the error. 

with best regards
- --Wlodek Drabent
................................................................

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C-h C-p C-x k <return> C-h P C-s r m a i l C-s C-s 
C-s C-v C-s C-s C-r C-r C-r C-x b <return> C-u C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p <return> SPC l C-n <return> 
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