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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: add file for VMSmail extracted files broken?
Message-ID: <11412@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 20:07:01 GMT
References: <8909070205.AA07083@vrdxhq.verdix.com> <302@gp.govt.nz>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <302@gp.govt.nz>, GPWRMDH@gp.govt.nz (Martin D. Hunt) writes:
> Try using EXTRACT/NOHEADER instead of EXTRACT.

Sigh.  The NEWS ADD FILE command is designed to process mail files that have
been extracted WITH the mail headers.  NEWS looks for

 <FF>   <FF>   <FF>    <FF>            <FF>     
 From:  Path:  NPath:  Relay-Version:  NRelay-Version:

  or

 #!rnews  N#!rnews

to tell where the current article ends and the next article begins. In
addition, it keeps processing headers until a Newsgroup: header is found, eg:

<FF>
From: 	someone
To:	me
CC:
Subj:	something

Received: ...
Received: ...
other mailer headers...

#!rnews <???>
Path: ...
Newsgroups: ...
...

would be treated as ONE set of headers, even though there are actually three
sets of headers there.  See the routine add_file in NEWSADD.C, where it does:

    while ( scan_header() );

While it might work to use EXTRACT/NOHEADER is some cases, it is probably not
a good idea in the general case.  Again, I would be glad to look at this
problem, but I can't seem to get NEWS to fail adding EXTRACTed files.  Could
someone send me a file that causes the problem?  Preferable a small one. :-)
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