Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: Bug? Problem? Message-ID: <8908081121.AA20380@uunet.uu.net> Date: 9 Aug 89 02:09:17 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS DiscussionReply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 42 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