From owner-ctm-users@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 10:36:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ctm-users@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04615106566B for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:36:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com) Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [192.35.17.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9078FC20 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o0LAaJ6e023688; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:36:19 +0100 Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.40.130]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o0LAaJM0001461; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:36:19 +0100 Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) id o0LAaJ17094230; Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:36:18 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Message-ID: <20100121103618.GA25915@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <201001201203.o0KC3r5E036646@fire.js.berklix.net> <201001202351.o0KNpsh3006649@dungeon.home> <4B579F5E.7070801@missouri.edu> <201001210118.o0L1IElB007517@dungeon.home> <4B57AE8C.4070003@missouri.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B57AE8C.4070003@missouri.edu> X-Echelon: X-Advice: Drop that crappy M$-Outlook, I'm tired of your viruses! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: "ctm-users@freebsd.org" , "Julian H. Stacey" , "Albsmeier, Andre" , Stephen McKay Subject: Re: No deltas via email anymore? X-BeenThere: ctm-users@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CTM User discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:36:23 -0000 On Thu, 21-Jan-2010 at 02:31:56 +0100, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Stephen McKay wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20th January 2010, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > >> Stephen McKay wrote: > >> > >>> It would be trivial to change ctm_smail to send lines of 72 characters. > >>> It would reduce the encoding efficiency slightly, but not enough to > >>> worry about. It is not worth making it optional. I'll probably do > >>> this when I get a moment. > >> > >> This looks very easy to implement, namely change the line > >> #define LINE_LENGTH 76 > >> in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm_smail > > > > Yes. Multiples of 4 only. > > > >> So, would there be a problem with making this start right now? > >> (Remember I make the deltas, so I can make this happen anytime.) > > > > Righto. I've changed my local copy from 76 to 72 and did a small test > > run. Works for me. I'll update the official source when I get a chance. > > > > A cautious person would do their own test run, of course. :-) > > I have made the change. The next ctm generation starts 10pm CST. Can > people tell me if there are problems? I must admit to not being > cautious, but the worst that will happen is that people will need to > download those deltas from the ftp sites. src-7.0897.gz came in here at 7:48 UTC. It was of course, according to the headers, still converted to quoted-printable but, since there were never any 8bit chars and the line length was 72, no conversion was actually done. I could directly feed it to ctm_rmail and all went fine ;-). Let's see how things develop with further deltas but, if those M$ morons don't play with there knobs again, things should be fine. Thanks a lot, -Andre