Re: [Bug-mit-scheme] Fwd: imail bug

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:42:50 -0400
   From: Julie Sussman <address@hidden>

   I hadn't realized that when imail modifies an rmail-style file
   it writes all over the old, stored messages, like this:

   1, edited,, g4g8,
   Summary-line: 25-Mar   address@hidden  [69] address@hidden: G4G8 Last Minute 
Info for Speakers]
   X-IMAIL-INTERNAL-TIME: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:59:02 -0400
   Summary-line: 25-Mar   address@hidden  [69] address@hidden: G4G8 Last Minute 
Info for Speakers]

Hmm, the only thing that IMAIL should be doing is adding an
X-IMAIL-INTERNAL-TIME header -- once, since it's pretty careful about
its use of the X-IMAIL-* headers.  It looks like another mail reader
(e.g., RMAIL in GNU Emacs, perhaps) is adding extra headers like
Summary-line and X-Coding-System, which IMAIL doesn't do.  And it
looks like whatever is adding those lines is getting confused by
IMAIL's X-IMAIL-INTERNAL-TIME header.  Also, IMAIL doesn't make backup
files (although it probably should).  So I'm curious where the
trips.msgs~ file you mentioned came from.  Are you using any other
mail reader to look at the file, even if not simultaneously?