arnold@muddcs.Claremont.EDU (Arnold de Leon) (07/28/88)
Has anyone used Elm with mmdf. Does 2.1 do this? Mmdf has replacement for sendmail so it might be possible to use that and fool Elm. I would prefer a much cleaner approach. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Arnold de Leon arnold@muddcs.claremont.edu OR uunet!muddcs!arnold Harvey Mudd College USnail: Platt Campus Ctr, HMC, Claremont, CA 91711
pd@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Paul Davison) (07/29/88)
As a very low priority task I have been tinkering with elm to try and get it to cooperate with mmdf. I use the mmdf sendmail substitute, as you suggested, though eventually I want to replace this with "submit", of course. That would also involve making the header editing section a lot better, using termcap to provide better screen control and editing. I had to change many bits of elm which rely on the stupid sendmail message format, and make it understand about the 4 ^A message seperators. It still is a bit funny; also the stuff which massages the dates on messages (received and sent) needs looking at. What I want to do is incorporate my hacks into 2.0 (1?) when it arrives, and tidy it up a bit. I gather that the new version will be out before too long. After that perhaps I shall post or mail the diffs depending on how interested people are. They are all #ifdef'd but I must confess it is a bit messy. I made a similar enquiry to yours a few months ago but got no response at all, by the way! -- Paul Davison UUCP: pd@qmc-cs.uucp | Computer Science Dept ARPA: pd%cs.qmc.ac.uk@nss.ucl.ac.uk | Queen Mary College JANET: pd@uk.ac.qmc.cs | Mile End Road Voice: +44 1 980 4811 x5250 | London E1 4NS
lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) (08/01/88)
In article <551@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> pd@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Paul Davison) writes: >What I want to do is incorporate my hacks into 2.0 (1?) when it arrives, >and tidy it up a bit. I gather that the new version will be out before >too long. After that perhaps I shall post or mail the diffs depending on >how interested people are. They are all #ifdef'd but I must confess >it is a bit messy. It's a bit late to get it into 2.1 (the next release). What I'm going to start working on (after we get 2.1 cleaned up and out the door) is an interface to MH. Part of this will involve putting together a generic mailbox/folder interface. Once this is done, adding in MMDF mailboxes will be fairly simple (I'm not ready to tackle the submit interface yet :-) If anyone has any thoughts on what should be provided in the way of generic interface capabilities, I would appreciate hearing from you. -- VE6BBM {alberta,pyramid,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA
awy@concurrent.co.uk (Alan Young) (08/01/88)
I too use the mmdf sendmail substitute, but with some changes. First I
fixed mmdf's sendmail to return proper exit status codes. And second,
because of the dumb way in which elm calls sendmail (always presuming
that it worked because of the "-em" flag), I actually call the following
shell script from elm:
umask 0077
tmp=/tmp/$$tmp
log=/tmp/$$log
trap "rm -f $tmp $log; exit 1" 1 2 15
calltext=/usr/lib/sendmail
em=0
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
if [ "$1" = "-em" ]
then
em=1
fi
calltext="$calltext \"$1\""
shift
done
if [ $em -eq 1 ]
then
tee $tmp | eval $calltext >$log 2>&1
result=$?
if [ $result -ne 0 ]
then
(
echo "Your mail was not delivered for the following reason(s)\n"
cat $log
echo "\n Returned message\n----------------\n"
cat $tmp
) | /usr/local/mmdf/v6mail $LOGNAME -s "Failed Mail" \
-f "mmdf (Mail Submission System)" --qz
fi
else
eval $calltext
result=$?
fi
rm -f $tmp $log
exit $result