Subj : Not a test
To   : Accession
From : apam
Date : Sat Jan 20 2024 06:36 pm

 > On 1/19/2024 8:21 PM, Aon -> Al -> All wrote:
 > 
 >  A> Hello all,
 > 
 >  A> Testing Jamnntpd on 64bit Linux. The From field is still wonky.
 > 
 > Seems everything else works, except "Aon -> Al -> All" is also what appears in my From field now in Thunderbird.
 > 
 > I only see "%s -> %s" at two locations in nntpserv.c. So I have no idea where that's coming from. ;(
 > 

One thing I noticed when I was using some stuff that did something similar (Crashmail2  when I was working on Magicka) Is who ever wrote it made some assumptions about how the C library copied strings, which turned out not to be true anymore.

The specific bug I think (and it was a long time ago) was something along the lines of 

strcpy(subject, &subject[4])

It was to do with stripping the (Re: from the start of messages), it expected strcpy to copy one character at a time sequentially.

The fix I used was to just:

char *subj_copy = strdup(&subject[4]);

strcpy(subject, subj_copy);

free(subj_copy)


I don't know it it will help you with JamNNTP but, I wouldn't be suprised if they used some "clever" tricks like that.

Andrew
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