On 1/23/2024 6:48 AM, Tommi Koivula -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 >> Didn't you say you were still having issues with the FROM field not
 >> displaying properly in your newsreader?

 TK> I've been studying this. It's pretty funny that there is no problems in
 TK> my OS/2 Jamnntpd. Yesterday I did more research of the code, and in
 TK> nntpserv.c I commented out the line:

I've also been trying to track it down.

 TK> //   strcpy(mimefrom,&mimefrom[6]);

 TK> Compiled in 64bit Ubuntu (22.04.3) with -m32, and it seems to work. For
 TK> now. :)

Carlos assisted me with a patch for Smapinntpd. Basically the same thing that was added to Jamnntpd 1.2 to fix the From field, just in the correct locations in Smapinntpd's nntpserv.c since it differed from Jamnntpd's code.

 TK> Also it depends on the news client how it shows the "From:" in the
 TK> message list. Pretty weird. :D

Yeah, Thunderbird was definitely the hardest one to please. But I seem to be good now.

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Regards,
Nick

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