diff --git a/test/emacs b/test/emacs
index 096fa017..fb61e9ab 100755
--- a/test/emacs
+++ b/test/emacs
@@ -118,4 +118,10 @@ output=$(cat attachment)
 expected=$(cat $EXPECTED/attachment)
 test_expect_equal "$output" "$expected"
 
+test_begin_subtest "View raw message within emacs"
+expected=$(cat $EXPECTED/raw-message-cf0c4d-52ad0a)
+first_line=$(echo "$expected" | head -n1)
+output=$(test_emacs '(notmuch-show "id:cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com") (notmuch-show-view-raw-message) (message (buffer-string))' 2>&1 | sed -ne "/$first_line/,\$ p")
+test_expect_equal "$output" "$expected"
+
 test_done
diff --git a/test/emacs.expected-output/raw-message-cf0c4d-52ad0a b/test/emacs.expected-output/raw-message-cf0c4d-52ad0a
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75b05fa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/emacs.expected-output/raw-message-cf0c4d-52ad0a
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:36:14 -0800
+Message-ID: <cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com>
+From: Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry@gmail.com>
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=0016e687869333b1570478963d35
+Subject: [notmuch] preliminary FreeBSD support
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+I saw the announcement this morning, and was very excited, as I had been
+hoping sup would be turned into a library,
+since I like the concept more than the UI (I'd rather an emacs interface).
+
+I did a preliminary compile which worked out fine, but
+sysconf(_SC_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) returns -1 on
+FreeBSD, so notmuch_config_open segfaulted.
+
+Attached is a patch that supplies a default buffer size of 64 in cases where
+-1 is returned.
+
+http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt - seems to indicate this
+is acceptable behavior,
+and http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2006/06/07/msg016808.htmlspecifically
+uses 64 as the
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+I saw the announcement this morning, and was very excited, as I had been ho=
+ping sup would be turned into a library,<br>since I like the concept more t=
+han the UI (I&#39;d rather an emacs interface).<br><br>I did a preliminary =
+compile which worked out fine, but sysconf(_SC_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) returns=
+ -1 on<br>
+FreeBSD, so notmuch_config_open segfaulted.<br><br>Attached is a patch that=
+ supplies a default buffer size of 64 in cases where -1 is returned.<br><br=
+><a href=3D"http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt">http://www=
+.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt</a> - seems to indicate this is a=
+cceptable behavior,<br>
+and <a href=3D"http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2006/06/07/msg01680=
+8.html">http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2006/06/07/msg016808.html<=
+/a> specifically uses 64 as the<br>buffer size.<br><br><br>
+
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