Suppress dancing progress dots when syslogging.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2383

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8d800777..99baf008 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ fetchmail-4.7.8 ():
 * New `nobounce' debugging option (specifically exempted from feature freeze)
   allows SMTP error bouncemail to be redirected from sender to local
   postmaster.
+* Suppress dancing progress dots when syslog is on.
 
 There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 348 on fetchmail-announce.
 
diff --git a/driver.c b/driver.c
index 5d64978e..c63793d4 100644
--- a/driver.c
+++ b/driver.c
@@ -499,8 +499,11 @@ static int readheaders(int sock,
 	    sizeticker += linelen;
 	    while (sizeticker >= SIZETICKER)
 	    {
-		fputc('.', stdout);
-		fflush(stdout);
+		if (!run.use_syslog)
+		{
+		    fputc('.', stdout);
+		    fflush(stdout);
+		}
 		sizeticker -= SIZETICKER;
 	    }
 	}