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1;;
2;; P O S T . E L
3;;
4;; Yet another mail interface. this for the rmail system to provide
5;; the missing sendmail interface on systems without /usr/lib/sendmail,
6;; but with /usr/uci/post.
7;;
8;; created by: Gary Delp <delp at huey.Udel.Edu>
9;; Mon Jan 13 14:45:12 1986
10;;
11;;
12
13;; (setq send-mail-function 'post-mail-send-it)
14
15(defun post-mail-send-it ()
16 "\
17the MH -post interface for rmail-mail to call.
18to use it, include (setq send-mail-function 'post-mail-send-it) in site-init."
19 (let ((errbuf (if mail-interactive
20 (generate-new-buffer " post-mail errors")
21 0))
22 (temfile "/tmp/,rpost")
23 (tembuf (generate-new-buffer " post-mail temp"))
24 (case-fold-search nil)
25 delimline
26 (mailbuf (current-buffer)))
27 (unwind-protect
28 (save-excursion
29 (set-buffer tembuf)
30 (erase-buffer)
31 (insert-buffer-substring mailbuf)
32 (goto-char (point-max))
33 ;; require one newline at the end.
34 (or (= (preceding-char) ?\n)
35 (insert ?\n))
36 ;; Change header-delimiter to be what post-mail expects.
37 (goto-char (point-min))
38 (search-forward (concat "\n" mail-header-separator "\n"))
39 (replace-match "\n\n")
40 (backward-char 1)
41 (setq delimline (point-marker))
42 (if mail-aliases
43 (expand-mail-aliases (point-min) delimline))
44 (goto-char (point-min))
45 ;; ignore any blank lines in the header
46 (while (and (re-search-forward "\n\n\n*" delimline t)
47 (< (point) delimline))
48 (replace-match "\n"))
49 ;; Find and handle any FCC fields.
50 (let ((case-fold-search t))
51 (goto-char (point-min))
52 (if (re-search-forward "^FCC:" delimline t)
53 (mail-do-fcc delimline))
54 ;; If there is a From and no Sender, put it a Sender.
55 (goto-char (point-min))
56 (and (re-search-forward "^From:" delimline t)
57 (not (save-excursion
58 (goto-char (point-min))
59 (re-search-forward "^Sender:" delimline t)))
60 (progn
61 (forward-line 1)
62 (insert "Sender: " (user-login-name) "\n")))
63 ;; don't send out a blank subject line
64 (goto-char (point-min))
65 (if (re-search-forward "^Subject:[ \t]*\n" delimline t)
66 (replace-match ""))
67 (if mail-interactive
68 (save-excursion
69 (set-buffer errbuf)
70 (erase-buffer))))
71 (write-file (setq temfile (make-temp-name temfile)))
72 (set-file-modes temfile 384)
73 (apply 'call-process
74 (append (list (if (boundp 'post-mail-program)
75 post-mail-program
76 "/usr/uci/lib/mh/post")
77 nil errbuf nil
78 "-nofilter" "-msgid")
79 (if mail-interactive '("-watch") '("-nowatch"))
80 (list temfile)))
81 (if mail-interactive
82 (save-excursion
83 (set-buffer errbuf)
84 (goto-char (point-min))
85 (while (re-search-forward "\n\n* *" nil t)
86 (replace-match "; "))
87 (if (not (zerop (buffer-size)))
88 (error "Sending...failed to %s"
89 (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))))
90 (kill-buffer tembuf)
91 (if (bufferp errbuf)
92 (switch-to-buffer errbuf)))))