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From: serini@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Piero Serini)
Subject: Elm bug (?) fixed
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:59:35 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Jan13.015935.20437@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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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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