From: <jari.aalto@poboxes.com>
Subject: 0.13: (patch), better crashbox message...
Date: 07 Nov 1997 20:40:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tbaffgmttj.fsf@pegasus.tele.nokia.fi> (raw)
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Hi,
I was getting lots of crash box messages (invalid format)
and I thought the following patch would make spotting
errors abit easier to regular user.
jari
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Prereq: 1.13
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/nnmail.el,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.13.1.1
diff -u -r1.13 -r1.13.1.1
--- 1.13 1997/11/07 13:37:39
+++ 1.13.1.1 1997/11/07 13:47:02
@@ -870,12 +870,18 @@
(defun nnmail-process-unix-mail-format (func artnum-func)
(let ((case-fold-search t)
- start message-id content-length end skip head-end)
+ (delim "^From ")
+ start message-id content-length end skip head-end
+ )
(goto-char (point-min))
- (if (not (and (re-search-forward "^From " nil t)
+ (if (not (and (re-search-forward delim nil t)
(goto-char (match-beginning 0))))
;; Possibly wrong format?
- (error "Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.)")
+ (progn
+ (pop-to-buffer (current-buffer)) ;Show to user too
+ (error "Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted `%s' .)"
+ delim)
+ )
;; Carry on until the bitter end.
(while (not (eobp))
(setq start (point)
@@ -960,7 +966,11 @@
(if (not (and (re-search-forward delim nil t)
(forward-line 1)))
;; Possibly wrong format?
- (error "Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.)")
+ (progn
+ (pop-to-buffer (current-buffer)) ;Show to user too
+ (error "Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted `%s' .)"
+ delim)
+ )
;; Carry on until the bitter end.
(while (not (eobp))
(setq start (point))
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