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From: schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Dealing with old mail programs?
Message-ID: <5775@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 01:18:07 GMT
References: <1817@naucse.UUCP> <128243@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <128243@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@sun.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:
} In article <1817@naucse.UUCP> sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
} > I need to know if there's an easy way to have mush work a little
} > more nicely with old style mailers.  I regularly get mail from
} > several sites whose mailers don't place an empty line at the
} > start of the message body.
} 
} Mush does not require a blank line between headers, 

Dan's statement is, unfortunately, only half right.

The part of mush that parses header information (for purposes of
constructing the "headers" display etc.) does not require a blank line.

The part that displays messages, copies them to files, etc., DOES
require a blank line.

Somewhere in msgs.c, in the function copy_msg():

    if (*line == '\n') {
	if (on_hdr) {	/* blank line -- end of header */

You need to make two changes. (1) At the top of copy_msg(), declare

    char *p;

(You may also wish to delete the block-scoped declarations of *p that
occur elsewhere in that function.)  (2) Change the test to

    if (*line == '\n' || (p = any(line, " \t:")) && *p != ':') {

This will handle the case of any non-header line that doesn't start out
with "Steve:".  Unless you've ignored yourself, that won't matter. :-)
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life
                        exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has
schaefer@cse.ogi.edu        tried to contact us."                     -- Calvin
(used to be cse.ogc.edu)