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From: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn
Subject: Re: INEWS: adding a blank line before headers on moderated mail
Message-ID: <2139@twg.bc.ca>
Date: 21 May 91 07:35:53 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Organization: The Westrheim Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Well, I've done some more hacking and found that inews is
definately using the "mail" program, which in my case is
"/usr/bin/mail".  When I renamed it and posted to a local
moderated group, inews choked.

I found some code in the Bnews program "control.c" that seems to
be testing for sendmail or mmdf.  If these aren't defined it
resorts to various flavours of "mail".  I replaced the definition
for "mail" with a definition for "smail", recompiled and posted
to the newsgroup again.  This time, the article headers were
interpretted by smail as being part of the mail and the mailed
article had no corrupting blank line in the middle of the
headers.

It would appear as though the problem is resolved, but I have a
little voice that keeps asking me what else I just broke by
actually hacking the C source for Bnews.  It does seem like a
rather drastic measure.  I included the piece of code I changed
and ask that if anyone sees any potential problem with it, that
they speak up.

----- portion of code from control.c -------------------

#ifdef SENDMAIL
                execl(SENDMAIL, "sendmail", "-oi", "-oeq", sendto, (char *)NULL);
#endif /* SENDMAIL */
#ifdef MMDF
                execl(MMDF, "inews-mail", "-smuxto,cc*", (char *)NULL);
#endif /* MMDF */

was this -->    /*execl("/usr/bin/mail", "mail", sendto, (char *)NULL);*/
now this -->    execl("/usr/bin/smail", "smail", sendto, (char *)NULL);
                execl("/usr/ucb/mail", "mail", sendto, (char *)NULL);
                execl("/bin/mail", "mail", sendto, (char *)NULL);
                execl("/usr/bin/mailx", "mail", sendto, (char *)NULL);
                _exit(1);
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Bill Irwin    -       The Westrheim Group     -    Vancouver, BC, Canada
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