sendmail/rmail-input compatibility in Epoch 4.0p2

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3 total messages Started by Arnold Smith Wed, 05 Aug 1992 17:40

#118

Author: Arnold Smith
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 17:40

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I've been experiencing an odd problem with sendmail in Epoch 4.0p2 that I
didn't have with Epoch 3.2.  I use epoch to send most of my mail, and I
have mail-archive-file-name set non-nil (to the name of a file in fact) in
order to retain copies of all messages I send.  Since installing 4.0p2,
outgoing messages continue to be put into the specified file, but in a
format that (rmail-convert-to-babyl-format) doesn't recognize as Unix mail
messages.  The result is that if I examine my outgoing-messages file using
rmail-input, all messages sent using 4.0p2 appear to be concatenated
together as a single long message.

The only difference between the old and new headers that I can see appears
to be the addition of a time zone field.  If no one else has encountered
this problem, I'll look more closely and see if I can find out exactly what's
going on.

Old (3.2) format message header:

    From smith Thu Jul  9 15:46:27 1992
    To: dmc
    Subject: /usr/local

New (4.0p2) format message header:

    From smith Mon Jul 13 11:17:03 1992 BST
    To: manny
    Subject: in tomorrow

The system environment is SunOS 4.1.2 on a SPARCstation (IPX), running
OpenWindows 3.

sendmail/rmail-input compatibility in Epoch 4.0p2

#125

Author: Marc Andreessen
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 09:00

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--> On Wed, 5 Aug 92 18:40:19 BST, Arnold Smith <smith@cam.sri.com> said:

  /arnold/ Old (3.2) format message header:

  /arnold/     From smith Thu Jul 9 15:46:27 1992 To: dmc Subject:
  /arnold/ /usr/local

  /arnold/ New (4.0p2) format message header:

  /arnold/     From smith Mon Jul 13 11:17:03 1992 BST To: manny
  /arnold/ Subject: in tomorrow

This isn't Epoch's fault, it's Emacs's.  (Epoch 4.0 is based on a
later version of GNU Emacs than 3.2.)  From 4.0p2's lisp/ChangeLog:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Jan 28 16:22:59 1992  Richard Stallman  (rms@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu)

	* sendmail.el (mail-do-fcc): Put timezone in From line.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This change took effect in GNU Emacs 18.58 (which is what 4.0p2 is
based on).

Marc

bug in sendmail.el in Emacs 18.58 distribution

#130

Author: Stephan Oepen
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 19:15

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marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:

> This isn't Epoch's fault, it's Emacs's.  (Epoch 4.0 is based on a
> later version of GNU Emacs than 3.2.)

yes, true.  however, i consider having the timezone go _behind_ the
year a bug in sendmail.el as it comes with Emacs 18.58 (as well as the
`feature' that always gives you a `Sender:' field whether you want it
or not ... :-{).

this is what i did to our copy of {Emacs | Epoch} ... works fine.


  oe@disco-sol (~) 41 $ diff /usr/gnu/emacs/lisp/sendmail.el \
                             /usr/gnu/emacs/local-lisp/sendmail.el
  20a21,27
  > ;; routine mail-do-fcc() has been hacked to insert the timezone _before_
  > ;; the year instead of at the end of the line, hence allowing to
  > ;; rmail-input() files written from `FCC:' fields.
  > ;; sendmail-send-it() has been fixed not to include a `Sender:' field in
  > ;; every message having a `From:' field only.         26-jun-1992 -- oe.
  > 
  > 
  214,221c221,228
  <           (goto-char (point-min))
  <           (and (re-search-forward "^From:"  delimline t)
  <                (not (save-excursion
  <                       (goto-char (point-min))
  <                       (re-search-forward "^Sender:" delimline t)))
  <                (progn
  <                  (forward-line 1)
  <                  (insert "Sender: " (user-login-name) "\n")))
  ---
  > ;         (goto-char (point-min))
  > ;         (and (re-search-forward "^From:"  delimline t)
  > ;              (not (save-excursion
  > ;                     (goto-char (point-min))
  > ;                     (re-search-forward "^Sender:" delimline t)))
  > ;              (progn
  > ;                (forward-line 1)
  > ;                (insert "Sender: " (user-login-name) "\n")))
  286c293,296
  <             (current-time-string) " " timezone "\n")
  ---
  >             (current-time-string) "\n")
  >       (forward-word -1)
  >       (insert timezone " ")
  >       (goto-char (point-max))


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