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From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Wed Jan 31 2024 19:25:46

Another issue with Thunderbird...

If there is no FTN origin address in messages (like in local areas), JamNNTPd renders it in the From field as "<unknown>". But my Thunderbird (latest version) is confused by this and it shows incorrect From's in headers.

The fix: change it to <unknown@unknown>, so that it is a valid RFC-5322 address.

Edit nntpserv.c and replace:

 if(fromaddr[0] == 0) strcpy(fromaddr,"unknown");

by:

 if(fromaddr[0] == 0) strcpy(fromaddr,"unknown@unknown");

It is curious that SmapiNNTPd doesn't have this issue - it seems that since the beginning it uses <unknown@unknown>, but this wasn't applied to JamNNTPd.

Carlos

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