TLIMONCE@DRUNIVAC.BITNET (Yeah, yeah, yeah.) (08/05/89)
I am now getting a 1-newsgroup feed via MAIL. To do this, I hacked
up a quick filter which makes everything look just like it came by an
unbatched mail-feed as usual. The only difference is that since NEWS
expects FROM: to be the first header-line, I did a really screwy
hack. Since I didn't want the filter to have to store up lines, etc
until it got the FROM: line and then write that one out first.
Instead, it generates:
From: bogus
Received: ...
etc.
etc.
From: juser@etc.uucp
Newsgroup: etc.
etc. etc.
With the 2 FROM lines, it seems as though News forgets the first one
when it reads the second one. This is exactly what I want and it
works... usually.
The problem is that many of the posts (10%?) go into the JUNK
newsgroup.
Is my (really ugly) hack causing these messages to go to JUNK, or is
it some other bug I'm hitting?
Thanks,
Tom
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Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net
Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389
:) Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University
(: "DEC's All-In-1 isn't completely useless, but it's a nice attempt."gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (08/09/89)
Tom Limoncelli writes --
>I am now getting a 1-newsgroup feed via MAIL. To do this, I hacked
>up a quick filter which makes everything look just like it came by an
>unbatched mail-feed as usual. The only difference is that since NEWS
>expects FROM: to be the first header-line, I did a really screwy
>hack.
It all depends if you do an EXTRACT/HEADER or EXTRACT/NOHEADER to get a file to
add into NEWS.... I assume you're doing an EXTRACT/NOHEADER.
> Since I didn't want the filter to have to store up lines, etc
>until it got the FROM: line and then write that one out first.
>Instead, it generates:
>
>From: bogus
>Received: ...
>etc.
>etc.
>From: juser@etc.uucp
>Newsgroup: etc.
>etc. etc.
>
>With the 2 FROM lines, it seems as though News forgets the first one
>when it reads the second one. This is exactly what I want and it
>works... usually.
No it works all the time - the parser is not that smart
>The problem is that many of the posts (10%?) go into the JUNK
>newsgroup.
>Is my (really ugly) hack causing these messages to go to JUNK, or is
>it some other bug I'm hitting?
This is not the bogus From: line... can you mail me a copy of a file which
fails please so I can hack at it??
Thanks,
Geoff Huston
gih900@csc1.anu.oz.au