zazula@neutron.physics.arizona.edu (Ralph E. Zazula) (05/17/91)
I finally figured out how to get comp.sys.next into Mail.app on my machine at home. I was creating a mailbox file from rn on the Sun machine here. MailFetch (a companion program of Mail.app) was core dumping without giving any useful information. It turned out that rn was putting spaces in the "From" line every so often. That is, spaces in the address before the time stamp. What I did was to write a C program that did 2 things: 1) remove the "From <users address> <timestamp>" line and replace it with printf("From \n"); YOU MUST HAVE THE SPACE AFTER THE FROM!! 2) remove the ">" from the line ">From: <users address> (<name>)" line so that the real-life name of the person appears in the from field of Mail.app. I then put the modified file in /usr/spool/mail/<myname> and started up Mail. Ralph