lisp/mail/unrmail.el

   1 ;;; unrmail.el --- convert Rmail Babyl files to mbox files
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
   6 ;; Keywords: mail
   7
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   9
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  22
  23 ;;; Commentary:
  24
  25 ;;; Code:
  26
  27 ;;;###autoload
  28 (defun batch-unrmail ()
  29   "Convert old-style Rmail Babyl files to mbox format.
  30 Specify the input Rmail Babyl file names as command line arguments.
  31 For each Rmail file, the corresponding output file name
  32 is made by adding `.mail' at the end.
  33 For example, invoke `emacs -batch -f batch-unrmail RMAIL'."
  34   (if (not noninteractive)
  35       (error "`batch-unrmail' is to be used only with -batch"))
  36   (let ((error nil))
  37     (while command-line-args-left
  38       (or (unrmail (car command-line-args-left)
  39                    (concat (car command-line-args-left) ".mail"))
  40           (setq error t))
  41       (setq command-line-args-left (cdr command-line-args-left)))
  42     (message "Done")
  43     (kill-emacs (if error 1 0))))
  44
  45 (declare-function mail-mbox-from "mail-utils" ())
  46 (defvar rmime-magic-string)             ; in rmime.el, if you have it
  47
  48 (defcustom unrmail-mbox-format 'mboxrd
  49   "The mbox format that `unrmail' should produce.
  50 These formats separate messages using lines that start with \"From \".
  51 Therefore any lines in the message bodies that start with \"From \"
  52 must be quoted.  The `mboxo' format just prepends a \">\" to such lines.
  53 This is not reversible, because given a line starting with \">From \" in
  54 an mboxo file, it is not possible to know whether the original had a \">\"
  55 or not.  The `mboxrd' format avoids this by also quoting \">From \" as
  56 \">>From \", and so on.  For this reason, mboxrd is recommended.
  57
  58 See also `rmail-mbox-format'."
  59   :type '(choice (const mboxrd)
  60                  (const mboxo))
  61   :version "24.4"
  62   :group 'rmail-files)
  63
  64 ;;;###autoload
  65 (defun unrmail (file to-file)
  66   "Convert old-style Rmail Babyl file FILE to mbox format file TO-FILE.
  67 The variable `unrmail-mbox-format' controls which mbox format to use."
  68   (interactive "fUnrmail (babyl file): \nFUnrmail into (new mailbox file): ")
  69   (with-temp-buffer
  70     ;; Read in the old Rmail file with no decoding.
  71     (let ((coding-system-for-read 'raw-text))
  72       (insert-file-contents file))
  73     ;; But make it multibyte.
  74     (set-buffer-multibyte t)
  75     (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'raw-text-unix)
  76
  77     (if (not (looking-at "BABYL OPTIONS"))
  78         (error "This file is not in Babyl format"))
  79
  80     ;; Decode the file contents just as Rmail did.
  81     (let ((coding-system rmail-file-coding-system)
  82           from to)
  83       (goto-char (point-min))
  84       (search-forward "\n\^_" nil t)    ; Skip BABYL header.
  85       (setq from (point))
  86       (goto-char (point-max))
  87       (search-backward "\n\^_" from 'mv)
  88       (if (= from (setq to (point)))
  89           (error "The input file contains no messages"))
  90       (unless (and coding-system
  91                    (coding-system-p coding-system))
  92         (setq coding-system
  93               ;; Emacs 21.1 and later writes RMAIL files in emacs-mule, but
  94               ;; earlier versions did that with the current buffer's encoding.
  95               ;; So we want to favor detection of emacs-mule (whose normal
  96               ;; priority is quite low), but still allow detection of other
  97               ;; encodings if emacs-mule won't fit.
  98               (car (with-coding-priority '(emacs-mule)
  99                      (detect-coding-region from to)))))
 100       (unless (memq coding-system
 101                     '(undecided undecided-unix))
 102         (set-buffer-modified-p t)       ; avoid locking when decoding
 103         (let ((buffer-undo-list t))
 104           (decode-coding-region from to coding-system))
 105         (setq coding-system last-coding-system-used))
 106
 107       (setq buffer-file-coding-system nil)
 108
 109       ;; We currently don't use this value, but maybe we should.
 110       (setq save-buffer-coding-system
 111             (or coding-system 'undecided)))
 112
 113     ;; Default the directory of TO-FILE based on where FILE is.
 114     (setq to-file (expand-file-name to-file default-directory))
 115     (condition-case ()
 116         (delete-file to-file)
 117       (file-error nil))
 118     (message "Writing messages to %s..." to-file)
 119     (goto-char (point-min))
 120
 121     (let ((temp-buffer (get-buffer-create " unrmail"))
 122           (from-buffer (current-buffer)))
 123
 124       ;; Process the messages one by one.
 125       (while (re-search-forward "^\^_\^l" nil t)
 126         (let ((beg (point))
 127               (end (save-excursion
 128                      (if (re-search-forward "^\^_\\(\^l\\|\\'\\)" nil t)
 129                          (match-beginning 0)
 130                        (point-max))))
 131               (coding 'raw-text)
 132               label-line attrs keywords
 133               mail-from reformatted)
 134           (with-current-buffer temp-buffer
 135             (setq buffer-undo-list t)
 136             (erase-buffer)
 137             (setq buffer-file-coding-system coding)
 138             (insert-buffer-substring from-buffer beg end)
 139             (goto-char (point-min))
 140             (forward-line 1)
 141             ;; Record whether the header is reformatted.
 142             (setq reformatted (= (following-char) ?1))
 143
 144             ;; Collect the label line, then get the attributes
 145             ;; and the keywords from it.
 146             (setq label-line
 147                   (buffer-substring (point)
 148                                     (save-excursion (forward-line 1)
 149                                                     (point))))
 150             (re-search-forward ",, ?")
 151             (unless (eolp)
 152               (setq keywords
 153                     (buffer-substring (point)
 154                                       (progn (end-of-line)
 155                                              (1- (point)))))
 156               ;; Mbox rmail needs the spaces.  Bug#2303.
 157               ;;; (setq keywords
 158               ;;;           (replace-regexp-in-string ", " "," keywords))
 159               )
 160
 161             (setq attrs
 162                   (list
 163                    (if (string-match ", answered," label-line) ?A ?-)
 164                    (if (string-match ", deleted," label-line) ?D ?-)
 165                    (if (string-match ", edited," label-line) ?E ?-)
 166                    (if (string-match ", filed," label-line) ?F ?-)
 167                    (if (string-match ", retried," label-line) ?R ?-)
 168                    (if (string-match ", forwarded," label-line) ?S ?-)
 169                    (if (string-match ", unseen," label-line) ?U ?-)
 170                    (if (string-match ", resent," label-line) ?r ?-)))
 171
 172             ;; Delete the special Babyl lines at the start,
 173             ;; and the ***EOOH*** line, and the reformatted header if any.
 174             (goto-char (point-min))
 175             (if reformatted
 176                 (progn
 177                   (forward-line 2)
 178                   ;; Delete Summary-Line headers.
 179                   (let ((case-fold-search t))
 180                     (while (looking-at "Summary-Line:")
 181                       (forward-line 1)))
 182                   (delete-region (point-min) (point))
 183                   ;; Delete the old reformatted header.
 184                   (re-search-forward "^[*][*][*] EOOH [*][*][*]\n")
 185                   (forward-line -1)
 186                   (let ((start (point)))
 187                     (search-forward "\n\n")
 188                     (delete-region start (point))))
 189               ;; Not reformatted.  Delete the special
 190               ;; lines before the real header.
 191               (re-search-forward "^[*][*][*] EOOH [*][*][*]\n")
 192               (delete-region (point-min) (point)))
 193
 194             ;; Handle rmime formatting.
 195             (when (require 'rmime nil t)
 196               (let ((start (point)))
 197                 (while (search-forward rmime-magic-string nil t))
 198                 (delete-region start (point))))
 199
 200             ;; Some operations on the message header itself.
 201             (goto-char (point-min))
 202             (save-restriction
 203               (narrow-to-region
 204                (point-min)
 205                (save-excursion (search-forward "\n\n" nil 'move) (point)))
 206
 207               ;; Fetch or construct what we should use in the `From ' line.
 208               (setq mail-from (or (let ((from (mail-fetch-field "Mail-From")))
 209                                     ;; mail-mbox-from (below) returns a
 210                                     ;; string that ends in a newline, but
 211                                     ;; but mail-fetch-field does not, so
 212                                     ;; we append a newline here.
 213                                     (if from
 214                                         (format "%s\n" from)))
 215                                   (mail-mbox-from)))
 216
 217               ;; If the message specifies a coding system, use it.
 218               (let ((maybe-coding (mail-fetch-field "X-Coding-System")))
 219                 (if maybe-coding
 220                     (setq coding
 221                           ;; Force Unix EOLs.
 222                           (coding-system-change-eol-conversion
 223                            (intern maybe-coding) 0))
 224                   ;; If there's no X-Coding-System header, assume the
 225                   ;; message was never decoded.
 226                   (setq coding 'raw-text-unix)))
 227
 228               ;; Delete the Mail-From: header field if any.
 229               (when (re-search-forward "^Mail-from:" nil t)
 230                 (beginning-of-line)
 231                 (delete-region (point)
 232                                (progn (forward-line 1) (point)))))
 233
 234             (goto-char (point-min))
 235             ;; Insert the `From ' line.
 236             (insert mail-from)
 237             ;; Record the keywords and attributes in our special way.
 238             (insert "X-RMAIL-ATTRIBUTES: " (apply 'string attrs) "\n")
 239             (when keywords
 240               (insert "X-RMAIL-KEYWORDS: " keywords "\n"))
 241             ;; Convert From to >From, etc.
 242             (let ((case-fold-search nil)
 243                   (fromline (if (eq 'mboxrd unrmail-mbox-format)
 244                             "^>*From "
 245                           "^From ")))
 246               (while (re-search-forward fromline nil t)
 247                 (beginning-of-line)
 248                 (insert ?>)
 249                 (forward-line 1)))
 250             (goto-char (point-max))
 251             ;; Add terminator blank line to message.
 252             (insert "\n")
 253             ;; Write it to the output file, suitably encoded.
 254             (let ((coding-system-for-write coding))
 255               (write-region (point-min) (point-max) to-file t
 256                             'nomsg)))))
 257       (kill-buffer temp-buffer))
 258     (message "Writing messages to %s...done" to-file)))
 259
 260 (provide 'unrmail)
 261
 262 ;;; unrmail.el ends here