11 Sep 15 05:10, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> one last thing, do you know if there's a fix in it for thunderbird   
    ml>> not getting the from name displayed correctly? i see that paul posted   
    ml>> about it some time back but it never affected me or my server... then   
    ml>> some users of ross' server are seeing problems in at least one   
    ml>> echo... today, all of a sudden, messages from my server are not   
    ml>> showing the from field properly unless there's a valid email address   
    ml>> in the line...   
      
    MB> The <> is for an e-mail address and the / or perhaps the : in a fido   
    MB> address causes problems in display for some news readers.  First I   
    MB> changed that to unknown@fxxx.nzzz.zyy.fidonet.net for a filler but   
    MB> then noticed that the -> also caused problems.  Now I just have "from   
    MB> - to".  The absence of <> does not appear to cause issues.   
      
   firstly, thanks for the other information that i trimmed out... i've made note   
   of it for future reference...   
      
   on the email thing... peter submitted a change back in Nov 2009 to fix the   
   email address to be more like the standard email template... i was just   
   looking over that code yesterday...   
      
      
   Make from addresses into valid RFC 5322 addresses   
      
      
   diff --git a/src/nntpserv.c b/src/nntpserv.c   
   index e2746a3..8f4b30f 100644   
   -!- a/src/nntpserv.c   
   +++ b/src/nntpserv.c   
   @@ -984,6 +984,13 @@ void command_abhs(struct var *var,uchar *cmd)   
          if(var->opt_showto) sprintf(buf,"%s -> %s",fromname,toname);   
          else                strcpy(buf,fromname);   
      
   +      {   
   +         unsigned zone,net,node,point;   
   +         if(sscanf(fromaddr,"%u:%u/%u.%u", &zone, &net, &node, &point)==4)   
   +            sprintf(fromaddr,"%u@%u.%u.%u", point, node, net, zone);   
   +         else if(sscanf(fromaddr,"%u:%u/%u", &zone, &net, &node)==3)   
   +            sprintf(fromaddr,"0@%u.%u.%u", node, net, zone);   
   +      }   
          mimesendheaderline(var,"From",buf,chrs,fromaddr,cfg_noencode);   
      
          mimesendheaderline(var,"X-Comment-To",toname,chrs,NULL,cfg_noencode);   
      
      
   so if the address has a point number, 1:3634/12.73, it gets written as   
   73@12.3634.1 and if there's no point number, a zero is placed such that   
   1:3634/12 is written as 0@12.3634.1... one cannot send email/netmail responses   
   to news postings with that type of address but it should fix the problem of   
   invalid addresses causing the "quoted -> names" to show properly... even if   
   the "->" has to be changed to "to" or "(to)" or similar...   
      
   what i do not see in relation to this is if or how jamnntpd converts back to a   
   valid fidonet address when a post is made... one should be able to crosspost a   
   private response to the NETMAIL area and that should be converted to a proper   
   private netmail on the FTN side... there is something where jamnntpd does   
   place a To: name based on the "fromname -> toname" of the original post when a   
   reply is made... i'm suspecting that something similar with the above address   
   format should also be done...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... It's not mould. It's just green flour. Yeah, green flour, from Ireland.   
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