[comp.sys.next] Getting comp.sys.next into Mail.app

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