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 Message 2340 
 Nicholas Boel to Carlos Navarro 
 Test 
 23 Feb 24 16:57:52 
 
MSGID: 1:154/10 65d922ee
REPLY: 2:341/234.99 65bff558
PID: Smapinntpd/Linux 2.0 b20240216
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: -0600
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05
Hello Carlos,

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 03:36:48 +0100, you wrote:

 CN> 27 Jan 2024 20:23:35 +0100 Carlos Navarro -> Tommi Koivula:

 CN>> This may be a possible way to fix the corrupted From field in headers:
 CN>> in nntpserv.c, instead of just removing this line:

 CN>>   strcpy(mimefrom,&mimefrom[6]);

 CN>> Replace it by:

 CN>>   memmove(mimefrom,mimefrom+6,strlen(mimefrom)-5);

 CN>> There could also be issues with the Subject field. The next line:

 CN>>   strcpy(mimesubj,&mimesubj[9]);

 CN>> could be changed to:

 CN>>   memmove(mimesubj,mimesubj+9,strlen(mimesubj)-8);

 CN>> As for the corruption in the body of messages posted with newsreaders
 CN>> that support flowed text (like Thunderbird), I think it may be fixed by
 CN>> changing this:

 CN>>   strcpy(line,&line[1]);

 CN>> to this:

 CN>>   memmove(line,line+1,strlen(line));

 CN>> These patches are for both JamNNTPd and SmapiNNTPd.

Another reply to the same message, with another utf-8 editor. Does this one
look
better to you Wilfred and Tommi?

Regards,
Nick

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