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bug#10377: closed (Re: bug#10377: unrmail fails to produce any output fo
From: |
Mark Lillibridge |
Subject: |
bug#10377: closed (Re: bug#10377: unrmail fails to produce any output for a empty BABYL folder) |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:27:41 -0800 |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Mark Lillibridge wrote:
>
> > have to understand that unrmail in batch mode is used to process a set
> > of BABYL files to produce a parallel set of mbox files. For example,
> >
> > find Rmail -type f -exec grep -q '^BABYL OPTIONS' {} \; \
> > -exec ~/bin/emacs-22.3-install/bin/emacs -batch \
> > -f batch-unrmail {} \; >& log
> >
> > Users likely would use further scripts to automatically move the
> > resulting *.mail mbox files into place. The correct behavior is simply
> > to produce a zero length output file with no messages.
>
>
> BABYL files with no messages are a fringe case of an obsolete format.
> Since unrmail has never produced output for these files, I'm not going
> to spend any more time on changing this now. If this is something you
> actually need to handle in practice on a frequent basis, I suggest using
> a handful of extra shell commands to check for empty BABYL files and
> treat them separately.
I'm fine with you marking this as "won't fix" -- it is an obscure
case after all -- but I wanted to make clear that the bug still exists.
- Mark