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echo: fidotest
to: Jay Harris
from: Tommi Koivula
date: 2024-01-23 14:09:00
subject: Re: Test

Jay Harris wrote:

JH>  TK> I've been studying this. It's pretty funny that there is no
JH>  TK> problems in my OS/2 Jamnntpd. Yesterday I did more research of
JH>  TK> the code, and in nntpserv.c I commented out the line:
JH>
JH>  TK> //ÿÿ strcpy(mimefrom,&mimefrom[6]);
JH>
JH>  TK> Compiled in 64bit Ubuntu (22.04.3) with -m32, and it seems to
JH>  TK> work. For now. :)
JH>
JH>  TK> Also it depends on the news client how it shows the "From:" in
JH>  TK> the message list. Pretty weird. :D
JH>
JH> And Thunderbird looks good over here as well, thanks again!
JH>
JH> https://ibb.co/b5bDfvR

Yeah, Thunderbird is the "too smart" nntp client which is causing most of the trouble. :)

'Tommi

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