Re: Gnus MIME parsing bug?

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On 2006-05-06 21:59, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
> [ CC-ing ding@gnus ]
>
> On Sat, May 06 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> I have a UNIX mailbox with several MIME messages with multiple
>> alternative parts, which comes up with seven different messages when
>> opened in Mutt:
>>
>>    1 r + 2006-02-26 Petros V             (   67) about svn
>>    2 r + 2006-02-28 Petros V             (   90) `->
>>    3 r + 2006-03-02 Petros V             (   53)   `->
>>    4 r + 2006-03-04 Petros V             (   91)     `->
>>    5 r + 2006-03-06 Petros V             (   47)       `->
>>    6 r + 2006-04-28 Petros V             (   76)         `->
>>    7   + 2006-04-29 Petros V             (  328)           `->
>>
>> Then I create an nndoc group and try to import messages from this
>> mailbox though, Gnus shows only 3 messages.  It looks like some of the
>> messages are 'eaten' by the part that splits the mailbox in separate
>> mail messages.  This only seems to happen with messages that have
>> multiple alternative parts (i.e. text/plain and text/html).
>
> Did you try to specify mbox explicitely instead of letting Gnus guess
> the type of the file?  I.e. `C-u G f file RET m'?

Cool!  This works much better.  Now in Gnus I see all 7 messages instead
of just 3-4 as before:

.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| . 26-Feb [  67: Petros V            ] about svn
| . 28-Feb     <  90: Petros V            > Re: about svn
| . 02-Mar     <  53: Petros V            > Re: about svn
| . 04-Mar     <  91: Petros V            > Re: about svn
| . 06-Mar     <  47: Petros V            > Re: about svn
| . 28-Apr     <  76: Petros V            > Re: about svn
| . 29-Apr     < 328: Petros V            > Re: about svn
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks Reiner :)

I still have the UNX mbox file around, so if there is any way to help by
tracking down why in this particular case Gnus uses the wrong mailbox
type, please let me know.