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Article #706simple smail 2.5 patch can save you lots of money
From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 06:07
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 06:07
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When smail 2.5 bounces a message, it bounces the whole thing, which can be
awfully big. This trivial patch causes smail to only print the first
twenty or so lines of the message.
*** deliver.c.orig Sat Oct 14 00:58:55 1989
--- deliver.c Sat Oct 14 00:58:48 1989
***************
*** 472,477
** Copy input.
*/
(void) fprintf(out, "From %s\n", from);
while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), spoolfp) != NULL) {
(void) fputs(buf, out);
}
--- 472,478 -----
** Copy input.
*/
(void) fprintf(out, "From %s\n", from);
+ i = 0;
while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), spoolfp) != NULL) {
(void) fputs(buf, out);
if (i++ > 20) {
***************
*** 474,479
(void) fprintf(out, "From %s\n", from);
while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), spoolfp) != NULL) {
(void) fputs(buf, out);
}
(void) pclose(out);
}
--- 475,484 -----
i = 0;
while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), spoolfp) != NULL) {
(void) fputs(buf, out);
+ if (i++ > 20) {
+ (void) fprintf(out, "======= remainder of message truncated =======\n");
+ break;
+ }
}
(void) pclose(out);
}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sources.d Subject: simple smail 2.5 patch can save you lots of money Message-ID: <4347@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 14 Oct 89 06:07:11 GMT Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 47