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From: dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Forms problem
Keywords: forms elm headers
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.160206.18862@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:02:06 GMT
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Lines: 48

Since this didn't show up in the last monthly posting and I didn't get
an acknowledgment when I mailed it, I'll assume it didn't make it and
post it.

We use the forms feature of elm here as a simplistic means of time
reporting -- the form gets mailed to everyone in the group via cron and
each replies, filling in the charge codes and hours.  I have found a
bug in the forms reply caused by the headers' buffers not being
cleared.  If one has sent mail just prior to replying to the form and
specified a Cc:  address, for example, the form reply is also sent to
those Cc: address(es).  The following patch seems to take care of the
problem and still allows specifying headers by the usual means:

*** src/mailmsg2.c.orig	Tue Apr  2 11:00:19 1991
--- src/mailmsg2.c	Fri Apr  5 14:44:23 1991
***************
*** 174,179 ****
--- 174,191 ----
  	  dprint(4, (debugfile, "-- renaming existing file %s to file %s --\n",
  		  fname, filename));
  	  rename(fname, filename);
+ 
+ 	  /* kill leftover headers */
+ 	  in_reply_to[0] = '\0';
+ 	  expires[0] = '\0';
+ 	  action[0] = '\0';
+ 	  priority[0] = '\0';
+ 	  reply_to[0] = '\0';
+ 	  cc[0] = '\0';
+ 	  expanded_cc[0] = '\0';
+ 	  user_defined_header[0] = '\0';
+ 	  bcc[0] = '\0';
+ 	  expanded_bcc[0] = '\0';
  	}
  	else if (copy_msg && ! retransmit) {  /* if retransmit we have it! */
  	  if (attribution[0]) {

-- 
Dave Wolfe (dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com)		| Motorola Incorporated
"[RISC is] like obscenity,			| MMTG (formerly MPG)
 we all know what RISC is when we see it,	| Austin, Texas  78735-8598
 but no one can define it."	Chris Torek	| m/d OE112  (512)891-3246

-- 
Dave Wolfe (dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com)		| Motorola Incorporated
"[RISC is] like obscenity,			| MMTG (formerly MPG)
 we all know what RISC is when we see it,	| Austin, Texas  78735-8598
 but no one can define it."	Chris Torek	| m/d OE112  (512)891-3246