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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
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Subject: Problem with mailer on System V.3
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Date: 10 May 87 21:18:57 GMT
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In the standard configuration, elm tries to use sendmail to deliver its
messages; if this is not present, it tries /bin/rmail.  On System V.3, and
most other USG systems, /bin/rmail is simply a link to /bin/mail, so it
behaves pretty much the same way.  The V.3 version of /bin/mail has been
changed, so that it adds a blank line to the beginning of the message it is
given (between the first line of the message and the 'From_' line it adds),
in order to avoid confusion of the body and header of the message.  This is
a problem with messages generated from elm, because it causes the header
that elm produces to be considered a part of the body of the message.

There are two solutions, according to the V.3 User's Reference Manual.  The
flag "-s" on the command line will suppress the addition of the blank line,
or if the first line of the message is 'Subject: ...' the addition of the
blank line is suppressed, even without the command line switch (sounds like
a pretty shady hack to me...).

Changing the command line would cause extra work all around, because it
would then require adjustment in Configure.sh based on whether a particular
system required this flag or not.  So it seems we are stuck with rearranging
the header.  The only potential problem I see with this is that it might
break some other inteligent mail reader, although I don't think this is the
case.

This file can (hopefully) be fed to patch.  The changes are:

*** mailmsg2.c.B
--- mailmsg2.c
***************
*** 85,91
  	  Raw(OFF);
  	  if (isatty(fileno(stdin))) {
  	    fclose(reply);	/* let edit-the-message open it! */
! 	    printf("To: %s\nSubject: %s\n", expanded_to, subject);
  	    strcpy(editor, "none");	/* force inline editor */
  	    if (no_editor_edit_the_message(filename)) {
  	      return(0);	/* confused?  edit_the_msg returns 1 if bad */

--- 85,91 -----
  	  Raw(OFF);
  	  if (isatty(fileno(stdin))) {
  	    fclose(reply);	/* let edit-the-message open it! */
! 	    printf("Subject: %s\nTo: %s\n", subject, expanded_to);
  	    strcpy(editor, "none");	/* force inline editor */
  	    if (no_editor_edit_the_message(filename)) {
  	      return(0);	/* confused?  edit_the_msg returns 1 if bad */
***************
*** 533,538
  	  return(NULL);		/* couldn't open it!! */
  	}
  
  #ifdef SITE_HIDING
  	if ((is_hidden_user = is_a_hidden_user(username))) {
  	  /** this is the interesting part of this trick... **/

--- 533,540 -----
  	  return(NULL);		/* couldn't open it!! */
  	}
  
+ 	fprintf(filedesc, "Subject: %s\n", subject);
+ 
  #ifdef SITE_HIDING
  	if ((is_hidden_user = is_a_hidden_user(username))) {
  	  /** this is the interesting part of this trick... **/
***************
*** 568,575
  		hostname, username);
  # endif
  #endif
- 
- 	fprintf(filedesc, "Subject: %s\n", subject);
  
  	if (cc[0] != '\0')
  	  fprintf(filedesc, "Cc: %s\n", format_long(long_cc, strlen("Cc: ")));

--- 570,575 -----
  		hostname, username);
  # endif
  #endif
  
  	if (cc[0] != '\0')
  	  fprintf(filedesc, "Cc: %s\n", format_long(long_cc, strlen("Cc: ")));
*** savecopy.c.B
--- savecopy.c
***************
*** 125,132
  
  	fprintf(save, "Date: %s\n", get_arpa_date());
  			
! 	fprintf(save,"To: %s\nSubject: %s\n", 
! 		format_long(to,strlen("To: ")), subject);
  
  	if (strlen(cc) > 0)
  	  fprintf(save,"Cc: %s\n", 

--- 125,132 -----
  
  	fprintf(save, "Date: %s\n", get_arpa_date());
  			
! 	fprintf(save,"Subject: %s\nTo: %s\n", 
! 		subject, format_long(to,strlen("To: ")));
  
  	if (strlen(cc) > 0)
  	  fprintf(save,"Cc: %s\n",