[hobbit] hobbit-mailack questions

[ZanDAhaR]

ZanDAhaR wrote:
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:55:56AM +1100, ZanDAhaR wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Obviously sms has no subject so I am just wondering how the mailack 
>>> would work when recieving a message back ? By default does it look for 
>>> the ACK code only in the subject or does it also look in the body ? If 
>>> by default it only looks in the subject is it possible for us to bodge 
>>> up the code and tell it to read from the body & subject, or just the body ?
>>>     
>>
>> Currently, it only looks in the subject for the ack code.
>>
>> You can change that. Try this patch against the hobbit-mailack.c file:
>> Save it to a file, then run 
>>    patch hobbitd/hobbit-mailack.c </tmp/ack-body.patch
>> and re-compile with "make".
>>
>> With this patch, you should be able to put a line into the message 
>> body with
>>    ack 129102
>> which is the ack code that is normally taken from the subject. You
>> can also put a
>>    delay=120
>> to make the ack valid for 120 minutes.
>>
>> The first line which does not match either of these is taken a the
>> ack message which is displayed on the webpage.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henrik
>>
>>   
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> --- hobbitd/hobbit-mailack.c	2005/07/16 09:53:14	1.10
>> +++ hobbitd/hobbit-mailack.c	2006/03/21 06:40:59
>> @@ -64,8 +64,14 @@
>>  				duration = durationvalue(inbuf+6);
>>  				continue;
>>  			}
>> -			/* Save the first line of the message body, but ignore blank lines */
>> +			else if ((subjectline == NULL) && (strncasecmp(inbuf, "ack ", 4) == 0)) {
>> +				/* Some systems cannot generate a subject. Allow them to ack
>> +				 * via text in the message body. */
>> +				subjectline = (char *)malloc(1024);
>> +				snprintf(subjectline, 1023, "Subject: Hobbit [%s]", inbuf+4);
>> +			}
>>  			else if (*inbuf && !firsttxtline) {
>> +				/* Save the first line of the message body, but ignore blank lines */
>>  				firsttxtline = strdup(inbuf);
>>  			}
>>  
>>
>>   
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>>
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>>   
> Henrik I'm guessing by the timestamp on the patch file that you only 
> just created this patch after I mailed about it ?
>
> If so I cannot thank you enough and I'm sure many others will also. 
> Your constant work effort and dedication to hobbit is excellent :)
>
> Allan Spencer
> Corporate Learning Systems
Replying back to my own mail here but anyway

Henrik will the contents of this patch be included in future releases of 
hobbit ?

Cheers

Allan
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