[comp.mail.misc] simple smail 2.5 patch can save you lots of money

karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (10/14/89)

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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