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bug#13329: 24.2 post patch for #9521; Rmail forward does not correctly h
From: |
Mark Lillibridge |
Subject: |
bug#13329: 24.2 post patch for #9521; Rmail forward does not correctly handle MIME messages containing "From " lines |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:37:03 -0700 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 13329@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:03:51 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > > From: Mark Lillibridge <mdl@alum.mit.edu>
> > > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, 13329@debbugs.gnu.org
> > > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:25:55 -0700
> > >
> > >
> > > If you don't want to start with an existing mbox, send a message to
> > > yourself containing a line like "From nothing" in the body. You will
> > > see that a > incorrectly shows up in the Rmail display due to bug
> > > #13328.
> >
> > I just did, and I don't see the bug (in Emacs 28.2). The mbox file I
> > get does include a line that begins with ">From", but in the message
> > buffer presented by Rmail to me I see just "From", with the ">"
> > removed.
> >
> > I see the same in Emacs 28.1, so I'm unsure why you see the problem
> > there. Maybe the reproduction recipe above is too simple, and
> > something else is missing to reproduce the problem?
>
> And now I've also sent to myself a message with a MIME attachment,
> where the attachment was a text that included a line that began with a
> "From". In the message I received, if I tell Rmail to show the
> attachment, I see that line without any leading ">" before "From". So
> again, I'm unable to reproduce the problem you are describing.
How did your mailer encode the attachment? If it used base64, then
I don't expect you'll see the bug.
> Are you sure you are using rmail.el which came with Emacs 28?
For the test with the existing mbox, yes. I downloaded and built
from source Emacs 28.1 and invoked it with -q, which should mean it
looks at none of my elisp.
- Mark