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Hi all.

In a previous post on comp.mail.elm I reported the
strange behaviour of ELM 2.3 pl xx on my system,
a PC 486/50 running 386BSD.
When I wrote mail, it used to send an "empty" message,
i.e. no subject and no text, headers only.
After installing ELM 2.4 pl 13 the problem wasn't solved.
I looked in the code, and found the following line:

mailmsg2.c - line 520 : 
		sprintf(very_long_buffer,"( (%s %s %s ; %s %s) & ) < %s",
                mailer, mailerflags, expanded_to,
                remove_cmd, whole_msg_file, whole_msg_file);

which results in the following:
"( (/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem "piero" ;
   /bin/rm -f /tmp//snd.xxx ) & ) < /tmp//snd.xxxx"

Now, the tmp file was deleted BEFORE sendmail could read it,
hence the error. In fact, simply modifying line 520 as below
makes things work:

mailmsg2.c - line 520 : 
		sprintf(very_long_buffer,"( (%s %s %s < %s ; %s %s) & )",
                mailer, mailerflags, expanded_to, whole_msg_file,
                remove_cmd, whole_msg_file);

I'd appreciate to know if this happened to me only, or it's
the default behaviour under 386BSD

Regards,
Piero

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