Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:50:09 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rmail and brain-dead mail systems .. patch enclosed Message-ID: <199509161750.KAA02205@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:39:05 PDT." <199509161739.KAA00498@precipice.shockwave.com>
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In case I'm not clear, I think that this patch will cause more harm than
good, as it changes the expected syntax. I doubt very much that MUAs
are going to expect a null from address.
Paul
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Subject: Re: rmail and brain-dead mail systems .. patch enclosed
This seems backwards. Why would you want a null address in there, rather
than just fix the one or two clients that don't do the right thing if no
address is present (which has been legal for years)?
Paul
From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
Subject: rmail and brain-dead mail systems .. patch enclosed
Will someone please add this patch to bin/rmail/rmail.c.
Some of us have to deal with mail from brain-dead gateways (notably MS-mail
>>)
that produce "From " lines without an address .. e.g. ..
From Sun Sep 17 01:10:23 1995
Received: from ...
.. this throws rmail into a spin :-(
The patch recommended by Eric Allman is ..
*** rmail.c~ Mon Mar 20 01:06:12 1995
--- rmail.c Tue May 16 03:26:57 1995
***************
*** 211,216 ****
--- 211,218 ----
/* Save off from user's address; the last one wins. */
for (p = addrp; *p && !isspace(*p); ++p);
*p = '\0';
+ if (*addrp == '\0')
+ addrp = "<>";
if (from_user != NULL)
free(from_user);
if ((from_user = strdup(addrp)) == NULL)
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