Why can't I e-mail from out of NN 6.4?

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4 total messages Started by The Golden Gryphon Thu, 14 Apr 1994 17:08

#720

Author: The Golden Gryphon
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 17:08

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Hello All,

I am running NN 6.4 on serveral machines.  The news portion is working
quite well, but e-mailing from inside of news is not.  What I mean by
this is, that if you are viewing an article  and you hit "m" to mail
it, everything looks fine, but submit chokes on the file.  It seems
that there is not enought of a mail header for submit to process.

In fact, only the "To:" and "Subject:" mail headers are being set by
nn 6.4.  

I am using "MMDF" under SCO, and I'm not sure the submit is the right
program to be calling.  Either that or I need to figure out how to
generate a better mail header in order to fix the problem.

So which is it?  Do I need to run some other program and not submit
(Don't say sendmail), or is there a place I can define outbound e-mail
headers so that submit will work?


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The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
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my mind, and my freedom are the top three.
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Re: Why can't I e-mail from out of NN 6.4?

#721

Author: Jim Lill
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 16:18

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The Golden Gryphon (gryphon@openage.com) wrote:

: I am running NN 6.4 on serveral machines.  The news portion is working
: quite well, but e-mailing from inside of news is not. 

We run SCO ODT 3.0, tin1.22, and news 2/93... is works OK

What kind of outbound route do you use/ UUCP or interactive?

I really like tin, you might consider trying it...

-Jim 


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FIXED!: Why can't I e-mail from out of NN 6.4?

#719

Author: The Golden Gryphon
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:53

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jpll@vectorbd.com (Jim Lill) writes:

>The Golden Gryphon (gryphon@openage.com) wrote:

>: I am running NN 6.4 on serveral machines.  The news portion is working
>: quite well, but e-mailing from inside of news is not. 

Well, some kind soul sent me the fix, I forget whom, but my whole
hearted thanks.  There is a little 20 line script called recmail that
inserts the "FROM:" line in the mail header and then sends the whole
mess to submit.  I will be happy to pass it on, if anyone else needs
it.

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Of all the things in my life I miss on a daily basis, I think my wife,
my mind, and my freedom are the top three.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area

Re: Why can't I e-mail from out of NN 6.4?

#718

Author: Superuser
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 23:36

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gryphon@openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:

>In fact, only the "To:" and "Subject:" mail headers are being set by
>nn 6.4.  

>I am using "MMDF" under SCO, and I'm not sure the submit is the right
>program to be calling.  Either that or I need to figure out how to
>generate a better mail header in order to fix the problem.

I set up NN6.4 with NOV extensions here and had the same problem...

I defined config.h to have a #define REC_MAIL /usr/local/bin/nnsubmit
instead of submit and created the following...

---Cut here---
:
# /usr/local/bin/nnsubmit
# Cludge shell script to get nn 6.4 to work with MMDF under SCO 3.2.4.2
# nn does not provide a From: line when it generates a mail message
# hence /usr/mmdf/bin/submit fails with message
# no author specification present
# Hence... we generate a From: line at the from of the message ourselves
#
# J.Wadelton 6/10/93  - NO LIABILITY ACCEPTED
hname=`hostname`
user=`id|awk ' { pos1=index($0,"(")+1
              pos2=index($0,")")-pos1
              print substr($0,pos1,pos2) }'`
fromaddr="From: $user@$hname"
(
echo $fromaddr
cat -
)| /usr/mmdf/bin/submit -mlrxto
exit 0

---Cut here---

Hope this helps
John Wadelton

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