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mail util: invalid message number


From: Thomas Esser
Subject: mail util: invalid message number
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:36:32 +0100

Hi,

just look at this:

    $ mail address@hidden
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    mail (GNU Mailutils 0.1.2), Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, 
Inc.
    mail is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    For details type `warranty'.
    Send bug reports to <address@hidden>.
    Subject: 

Or this:

    $ mail -fmbox
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    1: invalid message number
    mail (GNU Mailutils 0.1.2), Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, 
Inc.
    mail is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    For details type `warranty'.
    Send bug reports to <address@hidden>.
    "/home/te/mbox": 34 messages 1 new 11 unread
     R   1 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Giu Sun Aug  6 17:56  41/1738  context documentation
     R   2 Jan Nieuwenhuizen  Sun Sep 19 19:28 1893/7973 Re: 20020911 cross 
compil
     R   3 Jan Nieuwenhuizen  Sat Sep 28 14:31 2400/8738 [tex-k] Cygwin and 
cross 
     R   4 Jan Nieuwenhuizen  Wed Oct  2 17:47  67/2477  Re: [tex-k] Cygwin and 
cr
     R   5 Walter Schmidt     Sun Oct  8 17:46 247/8744  Re: [tex-fonts] 
belleek q
     R   6 Wendy McKay        Sun Oct 13 01:49 151/6276  Invitation to TUG2003 
/ T
     R   7 Wendy McKay        Sun Oct 13 23:09  71/2697  Re: Invitation to 
TUG2003
     R   8 Axel Thimm         Wed Oct 23 15:07  41/1695  rpm specs 
=?iso-8859-1?B?
     R   9 Daniel.Kowalewski@ Wed Oct 23 15:46  48/1670  RE: RST Update
     R  10 Jim Hefferon       Sun Oct 24 15:36  66/3250  CTAN install: brokent1
     R  11 Reinhard Kotucha   Sat Oct 26 02:40 165/6897  Re: format files
     R  12 Reinhard Zierke    Mon Oct 28 09:49  64/3001  CTAN upload 
notification:
     R  13 Reinhard Zierke    Mon Oct 28 09:53  63/2896  CTAN upload 
notification:
     R  14 Norman Wattenberg  Mon Oct 28 12:33  72/2649  teTeX 20021025: 
Probleme
     R  15 Vladimir Volovich  Sun Oct 29 15:53  44/1972  mf-nowin
     U  16 Lazarus            Sun Oct 29 10:39  67/2632  Re: Termine
     U  17 Thomas Esser       Sun Oct 29 17:39 281/10320 (fwd) patch for the 
use o
     U  18 Mail Delivery Subs Sun Oct 29 17:39 128/5845  Returned mail: see 
transc
     R  19 Mark A. Wicks      Wed Oct 30 15:30  44/1741  Re: dvipdfm: map file?
     R  20 Nelson H. F. Beebe Wed Oct 30 17:26  82/4255  [tex-fonts] Free 
software
     R  21 address@hidden Sun Oct 31 15:18  75/3571  destination unreachable (
     R  22 Lazarus            Sun Oct 31 20:16  85/3055  Re: 9.11
     U  23 Tomas G. Rokicki   Fri Nov  1 21:08  71/2998  Re: [tex-k] 
address@hidden
     U  24 Tomas G. Rokicki   Fri Nov  1 21:16  79/3454  Re: [tex-k] 
address@hidden
     U  25 Martin Schroeder   Fri Nov  1 18:34  75/3454  Re: [Ntg-pdftex] 
Marking 
     U  26 Reinhard Kotucha   Sat Nov  2 04:04  87/3568  Re: [tex-k] 
address@hidden
     U  27 Stefan Ulrich      Sat Nov  2 12:41  98/4404  Re: [tex-k] 
address@hidden
     U  28 Philipp Lehman     Sat Nov  2 15:00 1477/3616 [tex-fonts] Updated 8r 
fo
     U  29 Erik Frisk         Sat Nov  2 15:15  87/3925  Mathfrak-bug?
     U  30 The Thanh Han      Sat Nov  2 20:11  63/2646  [pdftex] [OT] request 
for
     R  31 Sebastian Rahtz    Sun Nov  3 21:34  51/2032  Re: texinfo changes!?
     R  32 Klaus Werther      Mon Nov  4 10:42  64/2327  Re: 9.11
     R  33 Fabian Kreutz      Mon Nov  4 13:36  49/2497  Mailinglisten
    >N  34 Karl Berry         Sun Nov  5 20:10  47/2319  Re: [tex-fonts] 
Updated 8
    35: invalid message number
    36: invalid message number
    37: invalid message number
    38: invalid message number
    39: invalid message number
    40: invalid message number
    41: invalid message number
    42: invalid message number
    43: invalid message number
    44: invalid message number
    45: invalid message number
    46: invalid message number
    47: invalid message number
    48: invalid message number
    49: invalid message number
    50: invalid message number
    51: invalid message number
    52: invalid message number
    53: invalid message number
    54: invalid message number
    55: invalid message number
    56: invalid message number
    57: invalid message number
    58: invalid message number
    59: invalid message number
    60: invalid message number
    61: invalid message number
    62: invalid message number
    63: invalid message number

All this happens right after the start of "mail". If I type
  d 1 - 34
in the second example, I get:

    ? d 1 - 34
    1: Inappropriate message (has been deleted)
    2: Inappropriate message (has been deleted)
    3: Inappropriate message (has been deleted)
    ...
    33: Inappropriate message (has been deleted)
    34: Inappropriate message (has been deleted)
    34: Inappropriate message (has been deleted)
    ? 

My .mailrc has:

    unset metoo
    alternates address@hidden
    set crt=99999
    set record=/home/te/Mail/outgoing
    set folder=/home/te/Mail
    set indentprefix="> "
    set DEAD=/home/te/Mail/dead.letter
    unset askcc

I am using the current cvs version of "mail".

Thomas




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