0.16 Mail Lossage Alert

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

September 0.16 will lose mail under certain circumstances.  (In
specific, if a mail contains a Content-Lenght header all subsequent
mails will try to use that content lenght, leading to some mails
slurping other mails into their bodies.  So your important mail might
be appended to some mail in your mail.junk group that you have a five
second expiry on.)

Here's a patch:

*** nnmail.el.~1~	Thu Nov 23 20:21:47 1995
--- nnmail.el	Mon Nov 27 18:03:08 1995
***************
*** 505,510 ****
--- 505,511 ----
  	  (insert "Message-ID: " (setq message-id (nnmail-message-id)) "\n"))
  	;; Look for a Content-Length header.
  	(goto-char (point-min))
+ 	(setq content-length nil)
  	(when (re-search-forward "^Content-Length: \\([0-9]+\\)" nil t)
  	  (setq content-length (string-to-int (match-string 1)))
  	  ;; We destroy the header, since none of the backends ever 

If you have used 0.16 to do mail splitting, I'd suggest grepping
through your entire mail spool for lines with "^From " (note trailing
space).  (This is for nnml and nnmh.  nnfolder, nnmbox and nnbabyl
should sort themselves out after a while automatically, I think.)

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen