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23.3; unrmail fails to produce any output for a empty BABYL folder |
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Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:31:18 -0800 |
ts-rhel5 [128]% ls
RMAIL
ts-rhel5 [129]% cat RMAIL
BABYL OPTIONS: -*- rmail -*-
Version: 5
Labels:
Note: This is the header of an rmail file.
Note: If you are seeing it in rmail,
Note: it means the file has no messages in it.
ts-rhel5 [131]% ~/bin/emacs-23.3-install/bin/emacs -batch -f batch-unrmail
RMAIL
Writing messages to /home/mdl/Tmp/now/RMAIL.mail...
Writing messages to /home/mdl/Tmp/now/RMAIL.mail...done
Done
ts-rhel5 [132]% ls
RMAIL
There should be a RMAIL.mail file of 0 bytes above as promised by
the output messages. This file is correctly created by the version of
unrmail in Emacs 22 and for non-empty folders by Emacs 23 unrmail.
- Mark
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Re: bug#10377: unrmail fails to produce any output for a empty BABYL folder |
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Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:37:42 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Version: 24.0.93
Mark Lillibridge wrote:
> I spoke too soon; this bug also exists in Emacs 22.
And Emacs 21, which perhaps shows how important this issue is.
Anyway, I made unrmail give an explicit message (but still do nothing)
if the input file has no messages.
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