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From: johnw@group1.UUCP (John Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: get elm and sendmail to work on SCO
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.063907.1828@group1.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 06:39:07 GMT
References: <1293@ap542.uucp>
Organization: Group One, Ltd.; San Francisco
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In article <1293@ap542.uucp> mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann) writes:
>Hello!
>
>Can anyone help to get elm and sendmail to work correctly on SCO UNIX?
>
>Sendmail works fine by itself, as does elm. But sendmail still puts
>the quadruple ^A between messages, and then I always get "corrupt folder"
>errors from elm.

Yep, I had to work on this one about 30 minutes myself...
The following code is insertable around line 344 in newmbox.c:

	    /** flush leading blank lines before next test... **/
	    if (strlen(buffer) == 1) {
	      fbytes++;
	      continue;	
	    }
	    else
	      first_line = FALSE;
	    
		>>>>> THIS IS THE INSERTED CODE:
	    /** flush leading control-A lines found in MMDF: **/
	    if (buffer[0] == '\001') {
	      fbytes+=5;
	      continue;	
	    }
		>>>>> THAT'S ALL!

	    if (! first_word(buffer, "From ") && !forwarding_mail) {
	      PutLine0(LINES, 0,
		  "\n\rFolder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!\n\r\n\r");
	      fflush(stderr);

-- 
John Wheeler
Database Design Specialist/4GL/Unix Programmer
Group One Ltd., (Securities Trading)
San Francisco