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Dear Bug Team!
I use XEmacs under cygin on Win2k for my mail (using VM), and use the
"queued mail" feature for writing mail when offline. It didn't work on
recent versions of smtpmail - because filenames where the messages
were stored had colons in them. I created my own timefunction hhmmss
instead of the default hh:mm:ss used to create the time stamp in the
file name, and everything was OK. Recently an additional bug in the
latest distribution prompted me to send my fix into the maintainer,
Simon Josefsson <jas(a)extundo.com>, who accepted my fixes and put them
into the latest version.
However, I just updated to 21.4p10 and found that the problem had
returned. I went to smtp mail and found a new way of generating the
filenames, but again with colons in. I sent my new fix in to Simon
Josefsson, but he said that the convert-standard-filename mechanism
now used should get around this problem. It doesn't- it leaves colons
in the filenames which make the files unusable under cygwin/Win2K.
Simon Josefsson writes:
Andrew Senior <aws(a)watson.ibm.com> writes:
> You may recall our previous exchange including my fixes to get queued
> mail in Xemacs to work under cygwin (on Win2K)
>
> I just installed
> 21.4 (patch 10) "Military Intelligence (RC5 Windows)" XEmacs Lucid
> with mail-lib 1.53
>
> ...and found that it failed again- the date stamp function has been
> replaced by something new, but since it again involves colons, it
> fails on Cygwin again.
>
> If you take out the colons, it works again ie
> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S")
> At line 350
>
> Could you put this fix into the CVS version please?
I don't think this should happen, as there is a call to
`convert-standard-filenames' below:
(file-data (convert-standard-filename file-data))
which should remove the colons if I understand it correctly (I don't
use Windows). This is how it was solved in Emacs, and it seems like
the right thing to me (no need to make all users suffers the
limitations of one file system). Can you find out why the call
doesn't work?
The reason I simply don't change it is that you probably will have
other problems in other parts of emacs if c-s-f doesn't work as
advertised, so it is probably better to make the function work
properly rather than work around it.
[And in a subsequent mail...]
It would be good to find out if this is a genuine bug, or if indeed
smtpmail should be modified. Could you please make a bug report?
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TSUNAMI 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown
./configure '--with-dragndrop' '--with-postgresql=no' '--with-x=no' '--bindir=/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-ipv6-cname=no' '--with-netinstall'
XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence (RC5 Windows)" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'.
Compilation / Installation:
Source code location: /development/xemacs/xemacs-21.4-release
Installation prefix: /usr/local
Operating system description file: `s/cygwin32.h'
Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
Compiler: gcc -I/usr/lib/../include/noX -I/usr/lib/../include/noX -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith
Relocating allocator for buffers: no
GNU version of malloc: yes
Window System:
Compiling in support for the Microsoft window system.
Using MS-Windows menubars.
Using MS-Windows scrollbars.
Using MS-Windows dialog boxes.
Using MS-Windows native widgets.
Compiling in support for Drag'n'Drop (EXPERIMENTAL).
- Drag'n'Drop prototype: msw.
TTY:
Compiling in support for ncurses.
Images:
Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
Compiling in support for XPM images.
Compiling in support for PNG images.
Compiling in support for JPEG images.
Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Compiling in support for X-Face message headers.
Sound:
Compiling in support for sound (native).
Databases:
Compiling in support for GNU DBM.
Internationalization:
Compiling in support for file coding.
Mail:
Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval.
Other Features:
Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
Load-Path Lisp Shadows:
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(/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ps-print/ps-print
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