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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:29:06 -0700
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
From: shearman@victoria.tc.ca (Gary Shearman)
Cc: Kassiem Jacobs <kassiem@csuite.ns.ca>, Report System Problems <support@pgfn.bc.ca>
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Thank you!   Thank you!

That problem has been bugging us as well.


At 2:51 PM 9/19/98, Michael T. Smith wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, David Lott wrote:
>
>> Can someone please point me in the right direction to accomplish this?
>
>At LYNews.c:130, you'll see:
>
>    /*
>     *  Get the mail address for the From header,
>     *  offering personal_mail_address as default.
>     */
>    addstr(_("\n\n Please provide your mail address for the From: header\n"));
>    strcpy(user_input, "From: ");
>    if (personal_mail_address)
>        strcat(user_input, personal_mail_address);
>    if (LYgetstr(user_input, VISIBLE,
>                 sizeof(user_input), NORECALL) < 0 ||
>        term_message) {
>        _statusline(NEWS_POST_CANCELLED);
>        sleep(InfoSecs);
>        fclose(fd);              /* Close the temp file. */
>        scrollok(stdscr, FALSE); /* Stop scrolling.      */
>        goto cleanup;
>    }
>
>Move addstr down 4 lines and add an #ifdef 0 / #endif to get:
>
>    /*
>     *  Get the mail address for the From header,
>     *  offering personal_mail_address as default.
>     */
>    strcpy(user_input, "From: ");
>    if (personal_mail_address)
>        strcat(user_input, personal_mail_address);
>#ifdef 0
>    addstr(_("\n\n Please provide your mail address for the From: header\n"));
>    if (LYgetstr(user_input, VISIBLE,
>                 sizeof(user_input), NORECALL) < 0 ||
>        term_message) {
>        _statusline(NEWS_POST_CANCELLED);
>        sleep(InfoSecs);
>        fclose(fd);              /* Close the temp file. */
>        scrollok(stdscr, FALSE); /* Stop scrolling.      */
>        goto cleanup;
>    }
>#endif
>
>That should do it (this should probably be a configuration option, but
>it's not, yet). cd .. && rm lynx && make.
>
>BTW, this assumes that the user's Personal Mail Address in s)ettings is
>set right, otherwise it'll always come out as NONE.
>
> ---
>Michael Smith
>michael@csuite.ns.ca
> ---


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