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From: rusty@steelmill.cs.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Invalid sender:username lines
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Date: 10 Oct 90 03:49:58 GMT
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In article <766@sunkist.megatek.uucp> dubb@megatek.UUCP (Howard Airhart) writes:
   >Hello -
   >Since installing patch level 7 (2.3) on a Sun3 (SunOS4.1), I've been
   >accumlating invalid 'Sender: username' messages after the address header
   >in messages which are stored the /var/spool/mail/username mail boxes.
   >See below.  The number of lines has increased as I go in_&_out of elm,
   >but not each time.  Also the username displayed is not the username of 
   >the sender.
   >
   >Did I break something or configuration incorrectly when I patched??

Nope.  Here's the report I send to Syd.  Maybe we'll see it in patch #8.

   >    To account for the added argument to fileio.c's function
   >copy_message() in Patch #7, leavembox.c needs to be modified at
   >line 448.  An additional FALSE is needed at the end of
   >copy_message()'s argument list.  This was the only place I
   >could find that needed the additional argument.
   >
   >    The lack of the last argument was manifesting itself by
   >adding a 'Sender: ' header to folders (including /tmp/mbox.*)
   >that were re-sync'd (using the '$' command) after messages were
   >deleted.  This was not a very pretty sight as I tend to leave
   >Elm constantly running while re-syncing from time to time to
   >clear out the deleted messages.


	-Rusty-
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