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23.0.90; Summary by label in RMAIL |
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Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:25:02 +0000 |
Just tried to sumaraise my mailfile by a label
l command that is
Total failure
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range [(65 "answered") (68
"deleted") (69 "edited") (70 "filed") (82 "retried") (83 "forwarded") (85
"unseen") (114 "resent")] 8)
rmail-get-attr-names(16410)
rmail-get-labels(16410)
rmail-message-labels-p(16410 " \\(concert\\)\\(,\\|\\'\\)")
apply(rmail-message-labels-p 16410 " \\(concert\\)\\(,\\|\\'\\)")
rmail-new-summary-1("labels concert" (rmail-summary-by-labels "concert")
rmail-message-labels-p (" \\(concert\\)\\(,\\|\\'\\)"))
rmail-new-summary("labels concert" (rmail-summary-by-labels "concert")
rmail-message-labels-p " \\(concert\\)\\(,\\|\\'\\)")
rmail-summary-by-labels("concert")
call-interactively(rmail-summary-by-labels nil nil)
This is a real loss. Not yet looked at the code
In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
of 2009-02-09 on cardew
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
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value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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Recent input:
<up> C-x 2 C-x C-f <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
C V / c v , <backspace> . t e <tab> <return> C-s c
u b b o n <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C r o s s i n g SPC t h e
SPC D a r k SPC R i f t <help-echo> <down-mouse-2>
<mouse-2> B e a t s y s t e m <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> SPC <down-mouse-2>
<mouse-2> SPC J o h n SPC f f i t c h <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-2>
<mouse-2> A r c h e r SPC E n d r i c h <down> <down>
<down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-x
o C-x k <return> M-R r i c k <return> M-R <return>
M-R C-h C-g <prior> <prior> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> M-R <return>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> M-R <return> <prior> <prior>
M-R <return> <prior> <prior> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> M-R <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2>
<mouse-2> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> R i c h a r
d SPC B o u l a n g e r <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <prior> l c o n c e r t <return> q l c o
n c e r t <return> M-x r m a i l <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> e p o r t - <tab> <return>
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Reverse Rmail search for rick...done
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Reverse Rmail search for rick...done
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==John ffitch
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Re: bug#2251: 23.0.90; Summary by label in RMAIL |
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Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:30:46 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Glenn Morris wrote:
> To summarize, the issue here is that a corrupted BABYL file
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> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2251#51
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> produced a corrupted mbox file, which RMAIL choked on.
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> The right solution would seem to be to try and detect the
> corrupted/unexpected BABYL file and either fix it when converting to
> mbox, or if it cannot be fixed abort the conversion with some
> informative error message so that the user can try to fix it by hand
> before converting. Ie do some basic sanity-checking of the input BABYL
> file, to see it has the expected format.
5 years on, it's time to close this as wontfix, since no-one has any
interest in improving support for the by obsolete babyl format,
especially in fringe cases like this.
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