On 21 February 1999, "Craig J Copi" proclaimed:
> I'm not on the mailing list so this may have already been
> discussed but when I upgraded to 1.0 I found that spost no longer
> worked. I don't have the exact error message but the problem was that
> the aliases file could not be read. The reason for this is that
> when it tried to process my local aliases file it never prepended
> the full path to the file, thus is could not open it. Attached
> below is a patch that makes it work. I'm sure this is not the
> correct solution but at leas not I can send out messages with
> nmh again.
>
> Since defpath == "/dev/null" the test below is always true so we
> never get past it.
The real problem is the call to context_foil() that is called right at
the beginning of spost.c.:main(). I'm not sure why this was added in
v1.0.
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
Free your mind -- http://www.opensource.org/
--
**********************************************************************
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
the system manager.
This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.
**********************************************************************
