[demime-l] Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Demime is what's killing my archives!!!

[Nick Simicich]

At 12:33 AM 11/11/2000 -0500, Bob Puff at NLE wrote:
>
>Thank you, Tom!  I didn't have Maildrop, and I'm not familiar enough with
Perl to start hacking, but suggestion #1 worked like a charm!  

Tom's suggestion is a good quick hack, but has a problem.  It will hide
demime's return code.  Demime could generate an error response and no
output, and it will just go through.

>
>It is probably more disk I/O than should be necessary, but I'm also CCing
this to the demime list/author, so hopefully it can be fixed there.
>
>Thanks again!
>
>Bob
>
>
>Tom Neff wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, demime eats the envelope From_ header.  You have three options:
>> 
>>  [1] Wrap demime in a script that strips, saves and restores the From_
>> line, like
>> 
>>         { read fl ; demime - | { echo $fl ; cat ; } ; }
>> 
>>  [2] use the -f1 switch to reformail(8), the tool supplied with
maildrop(8).
>> 
>>         demime - | reformail -f1
>> 
>>  [3] Hack demime.  It's just a Perl script.
>> 
>> --On Friday, November 10, 2000 11:27 PM -0500
>> mailman-users-request at python.org wrote:
>> 
>> > Demime is what's killing my archives!!!
>> 
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