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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: MMDF, Smail and Elm Mailer
Message-ID: <51364@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Nov 89 18:14:45 GMT
References: <8911202358.AA14298@decwrl.dec.com> <128223@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

I hacked elm to handle mmdf mailboxes.  I didn't keep the old one around,
so I can't make a diff.c without extracting it, but here is where the
short addition goes.   Works fine, BUT elm deletes the ^A lines, so after
you use ELM, you will have trouble using the standard unix mailer on that
box.

(in newmbox.c)

	/** now let's copy it all across accordingly... **/

	while (fbytes < mailfile_size) {

	  if (fgets(buffer, LONG_STRING, mailfile) == NULL) break;

	  if (copyit) fputs(buffer, temp);
	  line_bytes = (long) strlen(buffer); 

+	/* do not count ^A lines as anything but bytes */
+	  if( strcmp( buffer, "\001\001\001\001\n" ) == 0 ) {
+		fbytes += line_bytes;
+		continue;
+		}
	  /* Fix below to increment line count ONLY if we got a full line.
	   * Input lines longer than the fgets buffer size would
	   * get counted each time a subsequent part of them was
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473